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 his question and our reply that "we were adversaries of fraternization with the agents of the Kaiser, whether at Stockholm or in the trenches," was received in such a manner that the Bolcheviki, urged mockingly by his comrades to defend his opinions, promptly vanished in the crowd without insisting further.

The sun was setting when the manifestation ended, and it was not without some difficulty that our automobiles, to which we were carried on the robust shoulders of the soldiers, could start on the sandy tracks again in the direction of Buczacz.

As we started we saw another, not less remarkable, sight. From the heights, gilded by the setting sun, there came interminable columns going towards the front. All of them had the red flag at their head, and the inscriptions on some of them were translated to us: "To victory or death," "To the Trenches for Liberty," "Let us defend Russian Liberty," and another, on the standard