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EVILS OP SOVIETSTOLD BY SOLDIERMajor Walter Maddox Discusses Atrocities Witnessed in Poland.441Persons with Bolshevik leanings in the United States would be cured and change immediately if they would i visit Poland and see some of the 'atrocities that are perpetrated,” de-, clared Maj. Walter Maddox, who wit-' nessed the retreat of Gen Peter 1 Wrangel’s army before the Bolshe- *1 viki last fall. I!His body encased in a steel jacket because of an injury w the* spine, suffered in a wreck of an ammunition train while he wrs attached to the Polish army. Major Maddox returned Wednesday to the home of his mother, Mrs. Mary Maddox, 417 Pearl street, New Albany, having been sent 'from Philidelphia by the Bed Cross, arrangements having been made by Mrs. Nannie Young of the New Albany Chapter. After several days at his mother's home he was to be taken to the Marine Hospital Louisville, for a surgical operation.Major Maddox enlisted in Troop D, Second Indiana Calvary, recruited at New Albany, fought with the Rain, bow Division, was discharged, traveled to the Orient after a visit home and later enlisted in the Army of the League of Nations and was assigned to Polislr relief work in his quest of adventure.
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New Albany Daily Ledger
New Albany, Indiana, US
Thu, Jan 20, 1921
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