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Dr. L.J. Fisher, Vice-President	Jaroslav F. Smetanka, Secretary	J. F. Stephina, Treasurer
Dr. Jos. Pecival, Vice-President	Joseph Tvrzicky, Exec.Secretary	Adolf Loner, Fin. Secretary
Mrs. Anna Stolfa, Vice President	Vojta Benes, Organizer	J.V. Votava. Ass't Fin. Secretary

Bohemian (Czech) National Alliance
of America

3639 WEST 26Th Street
CHICACO, ILL.

Phone Lawndale 120
[seal illegible?] 457 Arkgd 7/7/17

President Woodrow Wilson, 64
Washington, D.C.

Sir:-

May 1 be permitted to call your attention to the fact that in
the recent successful Russian offensive the most signal services were rendered by the Czecho-Slovak soldiers fighting alongside of the Russians?

The Russian official war bulletin of July 3 states that the Czecho-Slovak brigade captured 62 officers and 3150 soldiers, fifteen
guns and many machine guns, and that many of the captured guns were turned against the enemy.

The brigade referred to is the first brigade of the Czecho-Slovak army formed in Russia principally out of Bohemian and Slovak
prisoners of war. During the old regime these volunteers formed merely Bohemian units ofthe Russian army, but Minister of War Cutchkoff sanctioned the formation of them into a separate Bohemian army which swore fidelity to the provisional Bohemian government in Paris. and Minister Kerensky apparently had full confidence in them, because
he placed them in the very forefront of the offensive which meant so much to the future of Russia and to the entire cause of the Allies.

I beg to assure that soldiers of our race in the United States
army will render as good an account of themselves as their brothers in Russia.

Very respectfully yours,

President, [insert S fisher?]Bohemian National AIIiance.

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