ral trading, and the Germans flooded the North with
merchandise, but these activities were more in the nature of utilizing
the opportunities created by the needs of the scattered population than
of developing rapidly a great country.

Soldiers in Archangel saw American flour being unloaded from British
ships in Archangel and sliding down the planks from the unloading quay
into the Russian boats. And at the other side they saw Russian bales of
flax being hoisted up into the ship for transport to England. England
was energetically supplying flour and food and other supplies for an
army of 25,000 anti-Bolsheviki and aid to a civil population of several
hundred thousand inhabitants and refugees in the North Russian area.
This taking of the little stores of flax and lumber and furs that were
left in the country by the English seemed to the suspicious anti-British
of Russia and America to be corroboration of the allegations of
commercial purpose of the expedition, though to the pinched population
of England to let those supplies of flour and fat and sugar leave
England for Russia meant hardship. In all fairness we can only say that
Russia was getting more than England in the exchange.

[Illustration: Several people in heavy clothing gathered around a scale.]
U. S. OFFICIAL PHOTO
Market Scene, Yemetskoe--Note Primitive Balances Weighing Beef

[Illustration: Large build surrounded by a high wall.]
LANMAN
Old Russian Prison, Annex to British Hospital

[Illustration: Woman rinsing clothes through a hole in the ice.
In the foreground, her sled.]
WAGNER
Wash Day--Rinsing Clothes in River

[Illustration: Three one-horse wagons.]
LANMAN
Archangel Cab-Men

[Illustration: Audience of soldier watching musicians, also soldiers, on
stage.]
U. S. OFFICIAL PHOTO
Minstrels of "I" Company Repeat Program in Y. M. C. A.

[Illustration: Several women around a table full of presents. The
presents are spilling to the floor in a large pile.]
U. S OFFICIAL PHOTO
Archangel Girls Filling Xmas Stockings

[Illustration: About 40 soldiers seated at tables, reading and writing.]
U. S. OFFICIAL PHOTO
Y. M. C. A. Rest Room, Archangel

Outside of the cities in the life and customs of the people exists a
broad simplicity which is unlike the social atmosphere of most of the
districts of rural America. Persons, however, who are acquainted with
the rural districts of Norway and Sweden feel quite at home in the
atmosphere of the