peculiarly animated "snob." All London will be talking about La Boutique Fantasque ' WHILE the task of reconstruction is proceeding along the 380 miles of the French front, a special commission appointed by the French Government has selected a number of famous sites, which are to be preserved in their present state as monuments of the great war. These sites, numbering about 140, will be found, says Reuter's Agency, all the way from La Bassée to Upper Alsace. It was obviously impossible to preserve every point of interest in the state in which it was left on Armistice Day, but care has been taken to select a large variety of points of interest, such as famous battlefields, deep dugouts, long underground galleries, ruins, pillboxes, observation points, etc. Several of the forts of Verdun will be kept in their present state. The extensive shelters carved in the rock on the wooded heights of the Vosges will be perserved, as well as famous entrenchments on both sides of the Meuse, in the Champagne, and in the Soissons and Noyon areas. In what used to be the British sector the following sites will remain: the Butte de Warlencourt, the ruins of Bapaume, some of the destroyed monuments of Péronne, several castles and estates in a complete state of devastation, such as the Château of Thiepval, the underground maze of Combles, the 'tanks' churchyard' at Pozières, the 'King's observation point'. on Hill 80, near Givenchy, the Givenchy battlefield, and the famous slag-heap and 'Tower Bridge' at Loos. It is understood that as soon as the present restrictions on traveling are removed it will be possible for the general public to visit these places hallowed by the heroism and sacrifice of the Allied armies. Which lies so deep upon you, The Anglo-French Review Reg. 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THE LIVING AGE Founded by E.LITTELL in 1844 NO. 3917 AUGUST 2, 1919 RUSSIA'S STRUGGLING FORCES BY K. J. LEDOC I THE newspapers of nearly the whole world are zealously describing the horrors and terrors of Bolshevism, so that one gets the impression that Boshevism is Russia's only curse. The result is to awaken the belief that if some miracle, or some outside intervention, were to wipe out Bolshevism, Russia would immediately become the old Russia, or, better still, that she would be resurrected, free from social ills and oppression, as a rejuvenated country, affording the world an example of a free, industrious, and happy nation. fairest hopes for a better future. I consider Bolshevism a natural crisis of the frightful war or, more properly, a continuation of its demoralizing influence. It is a sickness with which I fear the people of other countries have also got to reckon, quite independently of the influence of the Russian Bolsheviki. Something over a year ago I came to Russia as the special correspondent of an ultra-conservative commercial paper, instructed to study and report commercial prospects in districts controlled by the Bolsheviki, and in those districts from which the Bolsheviki had been expelled. I came to Russia with little love for Bolshevism, and left the country with still less love for it. I visited almost every nook and corner of the Bolshevik territory. I have seen the work and the struggle of the Bolsheviki, their successes and their defeats, and I have witnessed with my own eyes more frightful scenes than I have ever seen described by other people. It is not my intention to criticize the labors of any man, whosoever he may be, who attacks Bolshevism. Quite the contrary. I welcome such services. I join my colleagues, representing other newspapers, in denouncing Bolshevism and condemning its working as demoralizing and inhumane. As a Socialist, I say that Bolshevism is not socialism, and does not lead toward socialism. Bolshevism is only an aberrant form of despotism, which, unhappily, has chosen the red flag as its banner. It leads the proletariat to eternal damnation, and destroys its Constitutionalists. VOL. 15-NO. 749 I have been in every part of former Russia, among the Mensheviki and under the rule of the Cadets and the |