New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 5, 1918, Page 3

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PULLAR & NIVEN 1, 2 and CLINTON THE PRICE 'OU PAY take treatment 11l fagged out, am dead o1 weight and treatment.’ his interest your health run down You are draw- estimation Dr.ClintonJ.Hyde ASYLUM ST, HARTFORD Boston Store| SLOVAYS PLEDGED | 10 ELP ENTENTE Gallant Lnl Army Making | History in Russia ushington S [Turban, an offlc k arr r in the 1y which Japan and States have decided to afd has come to Washington ok to malke a report to Masaryk, commander-in of the Czecho-Sloval army and esident of tho National Council Captain Hurban has given to The his story of the ex- vaks from wped pris- castward from Associnted Pre periences of the the time the army oners fought their wa Ukrainia “The history of the origin of army, of its operations on the Russian front, and Its march around tho o | world to the Krench front will soma | day vead like a fantastic romance, he- fore which the imazinaton fades into the prosaic, Mainstay of Russian Army. from Czecho and Slovac prisoners of untable war under almost insurr with the Russian army, and since the summer (917 were practically the only army on the Russian front capable ot any military action in the proper sense of the word. Tn July the first revolutionary offensive under Kerensky it was only our army that really attacked and advanced When the iolshevile Soviet gov 1917, dur the beginning of March, our army, of about 50,000 men, was in Ukrainia, near Kiev. The former Ukrainfan ‘overnment, 1o escape the Bolsheviks, Germans and called for German help. When the German and Austrian armies hegan their advance into Ukrainia, the position of our army was almost desperate. We were in a state which had concluded peace, into ady lar to and occupyir ies with sent any real military power. “Germans advanced against us in overwhelming numbers and there wa danger that we would be surrounded. Our rear was not covered and the Giermans were liable to attack us there. We had no lines of communi no stores of serves: everywhere cation behind terials and no r there was disorganization and an- archy, and the Bolshevik Red Guards seized the locomotives and were fleeing east in panic. Turn Down Austria’s Plan. disarm, we would be amnestied and our lands would receive autonomy We answered that we would not As we could not hold a front, we hegan a retreat to the east. Already then in agreement with the Allies, (our army had heen proclaimed a part of the Czecho-Slov. western front the FFrench army) it was decided to transport our army over Siberia and America to France. We began the difficult vetreat from Kiev. The Ger- mans in an overwhelming force were seized the important railroad junc- tion at Bachmac, which we were obliged to pass inh our trains on our retreat to the Iast. Germans Decisively Beaten Germans were already waiting for us. | There began a battle lasting four days, in which they were badly defecated, and which enabled us to get our the German detachment offered us a 18 hours’ truce, which we accepted for our duty was to leave Ukrainia; but, the truce was cancelled by the but too late; our trains had already ot away We lost altogether about 600 men in dead, wounded and wn- accountable, while we buried 2,000 iermans in only one day. sheviks were still good We re- frained from meddling with Rus internal affal to an agreement with the Bolshevik governiment with respect {o our de- parture. or passage through Russia Rut already signs were visible that the Bolsheviks-—either under GGerman influence or because we then repre- ented the only real power in Russia would try to put obstacles in our way. 1t would have sufficed to order one of our regiments (our army was then, in Marech, near Moscow) to take Moscow, and in half a day there would have ]‘Wn-my no Bolshevik government; for taken from the front everything we could carry, to prevent it from falling | into the hands of the Germans. Iach | of our regiments had 200 to 300 ma- chine guns and nobody in Russia, to nothing of Moscow. could have at conteraplated an aitempt at op positior Moscow, moreover, would have re ived us vith open arms But we were rmined (o leave a the arm of o friendly, brother nation € | with an army which In spite of all | bad exporiences, wished Lussia (he | steengthening of real democracy Al- | {hough we could not sympathize with | | the Bolshevik Fovernment, we as suests refrained from all action walnst it, and remaincd absolutely joyal to it i ; Chironie | Given Free Passage Through Siberia. , prove indisputably our loyalty we turneé over to the Bolgheviks evervthing. all our arm with the = caption of a few riflcs which we kept | tor our, ko to say, personal, safety (10 | vifies for each 100 men). The equip- | ment we turned cver to th Bolshe Our army in Russin was organized | diMeulties Ve were co-operating | ernment signed the peace treaty at | threw themselves into the arms of the | wheh, however, the Germans were | e terri- | ul resistance. The Red | Guards of the Soviets did not repre- | A ‘,E‘,!‘."fl /\DVM“TE Ow Driving forward the trampling over the Queant Switeh and have come new defence line have been trying plete six miles | the Quc further t Switch URG l £NE e o Lol at | have Leen so vushed oy the relentloss advance of the Rritish that they have leen unable to finish this new Switch Line. Operations which are helieved to be of the highest importance have been begun by the IFrench in their tor near Soissons, buf their na ture has not been revealed than it aws “Under these circumstances Em- | peror Charles sent us a speclal envoy | with the promise, that if we - would | negotiate with the Austrian Emperor. | 1k army on the | | saw nd thus allied with | trying to prevent our escape. About | a hundred miles behind us they | “When we arrived at Bachmac the | trains through. The commander of | German chief commander, Linsigan, | “In this manner we escaped from | Ukraina Our relations with the Bol- i an | s and we tried to come | then we were well armed, having | sonnd eac ronf of the ten. P. C Thé | viks including arms. biles, airplanes, 1,000,000,000 legally in cur possession, ¥ from the Germans had heen abandoned Bolshevilks. equipment was of agreement made the Moscow were M | progress as a naive soon would end in failure that as they called reality, they then best to frustrate ganized an army | said, the Bolshe ceptionally however, far from all Their only which they Hun \vents “More dangerous the German agents to whom it This zovernment, guaranteed through Siberia, ernment ditional support pledged to | with the 1 Iready there Germans were about our movement documentary rch the Germans adventure, When they heginniag evidence of frienc restrained devoted to persuade our their Red Guard nothing to oppose it, men. Our people politically and to be carried Lenine nd volunteers to are.too well educat- W mask of iaternationalism found {heir way into the Soviels. In every Soviet there was a German who exercised great influence over all its memix Soon there came the news that the German I Magyar prisoners of wir were organizing in Siberia and were heing armed by the Bolsheviks uader i the pretense that they were going to fizght against “world imperialism.” We have proved now that the Germans were planning to provoke our conflict viks and to destroy us piecemeal with the aid of the arme | prisoners of wan “Under snch circumstances we he- gan our pilgrimage east. [ was in the tirst frain (there were then 80 trains of ), which was to prepare the way. W, were determined to fvave Russla with out a conflict. Notwithstanding the fact that we kept onr word that we surrendered all arms with the excep- tion of the fow necessary, our progress | was hindered and unending negotia- { tions had to be repeated in every seat of a local Soviet. We were threatened by machine guns, by cannon, bhut we patiently stood it all, aithough the Bolshevik Red Guard could have been disbanded by a few of our voluatcers After 57 days of such tiresome travel our first frain arrived in ivostol where we were enthu tically re- ceived by the Allied uaits stationed thero. “When the German wothat we, notwithstanding i ntrizue, o nearing VI they oxer- ised a direct pr L e and Trotzky: for the things that were later committed by the Soviets cannot any further be explained wway by iznor “VICTORY” SIREN UNVEILED ‘T CAPIT R L > | I das — o S T tion | 1asti i Wi e Miss | frene Bino o unveiled (he | siver | Copyright Chnadinst from Under- siren will l-\,an & Tinderwood | cossiated by treacherous attacks and | believed to have exploded the bomb . witnesses necar the scene of the cox- everywhere resulted in the disarma- | #nd these descriptions tally.” plosion They & aorubete d ment of the Bolsheviks, was joyvfully Secret service officers and the police ' fions of {wo men vhos; g zreoted by the majority of the Rus- |Worked an the theory that the explo- ' aroused thei : - e <ian population. Anti-Bolshevists took | Sion was the act of members or sym- before the blast si | advantage of the situation and over- | athizers of the I. W. W. in revenge So terrifi A [ o e S R | ror cnihat et convicitonton dgiorkhel TS | fere with their internal affairs even | Mmembers before Judge Landis. t oot ey | atter the open conflict. We only dis- The fact that the bomb was placed S ¢ | armed those who attacked, us, to make | Near & large radiator and clase o the - (he Post Office, was demolishe | @ repetition of attacks impossible. wall of the building at the Adams .ome windo - i street entrance, Is believed to have iniv were hlown r German Story Denied. caused its force to he expended back Sy ; e S : The Germs were trying to|ward and downward, probably sav-{ .ot Gm S fusgrth g spread rumors that our volunteers |ing the lives of many who were in the | 4,4 o 1 L " : 1 ¢ ommitted brutalities during these | interior of the postofli AT 1 side the t ¢ fanco. Tho trains were stopped at dif- it they finully wero of cver A0 forent statlons no t «cparated by a d {inile from one 1hother I’rovoldng Lincidents of all kinds were the ordut of the {ay The arming of the Ger- | L and Magyar prisoners w hegun | [on a larg cilo OUne of tho orders | { ot Tehiteherin, the Bolshevik forolzn i r, reads: “Dispatcli all German | yar prisoners out of Siberfa, | top the Czecho-Slovaks." Three | rembers of our pational councll who | § | were sent to-Mascow for an explani- | | tion of the stopping of our trains wers | sted. At the same time our trains { were attacked in different stations by the Soviet troops, formed mostly of | Cerman and Magyar prisoaers. i 1w W] the 1 k incident. | 1 | [ O in—ah 100 men, armed | | was s 1 v few thousand | | Ited Gu arn ith machine guns | § \ ) minutes to surrender their | 3 hot Socodng to thein:| ALL OUR | men jumped o o i ; | minnt il 1mrchine < re in | A grel | their possessio, the Russian Bolsheviks must) cl68 | disarmed an 1 the Germans and 4 ISt s done vith THey' I} é Th rinn Government which ing at » 1 i Irkutsk and which, as it ap- I » 1 ter, ovdere th ittack, can Lines | thank only fhe intervention of the skirts - ¢ American nd French consuls that it materials S wus not destroyed by our righhtly em models-=§ | vitterea volunteers eatisfactions i To wh extreme our lovalty was €economy | carried, is shown by the fact, that al- | though iously attacked, and al- | wigh we disarmed the Red Guard in | iricuisk, we still hegan new negotla- tions, with the result that we surren- dered adl our arms, on the condition HERE FRID WILL HELP that all German and Magyar prisoners vould he disarmed and disbanded, nd that we would he allowed to pro- coed unmolested The Siberian - anteed s unmolested vught by bitter expe- ®e, and, | ernmer | | ience that it was dangerous to attack cven unarmed Czecho-Slovaks, let us | brocecd to Vadivostok True, this oncerned only the trains in the vi- <k; the trains wesi of Irkutsk were—under the orders of Moscow-—attacked in the same man- FOR BoMB OUTR. | cinity of Irkut ner, but aways with the same results; everywhere the Bolsheviks were dis- Police Blame I. W. W. for Death;“‘" 'he arrest of the members of our charge W National Council, took place imme- . - i Department of U i | of Four in Chicago [ Mr. Barry sl tacks. [ Then, thousands of armed (er had been a number 'Of diately before these treacherc s were being rounded W) mans Magyars in the vicinity of e { Omsk, Krasnoyarsk and Chita, forced 3 8 | 1en added: " our army between Volga and ITrkutsk | Chicago, Sept. 5.Iourleen men were “We are practically certain . tha¥ to take the Siberian administration | reunded up as suspects in an all-night ; members of the I W, W. perpetrated nto their hands, (toward the end of | search following the explosion of a | Dis outra I believe that the bomb. fine) But even al this stage we | bomb vestorday in the federal build. | WS made with nitroglycerin. ' Priwd were trying (o enter into negotiations [ing which killed four persons, in. | ON€rs are being questioned as fast with Moscon Bt Moscow, i. ¢.: | jured more than 30 others and did S W¢ can get to them. Lenine and Trotzky, proclaimed us |considerable property dama i y_in the evening it was said | murderers and began mobilization | “We belicve we now are close to the - that 1.550 operatives were at work on inst us. Under these circumstances | persons respor e for the outrag he ‘case, A great many of these are. our troops we forced to take poses- | Acting Divisional Chief Phillip J mteers who have- been working | sion of the hridges over the Volza Barry of the department af justice said th the Department of Justice | “I must mention the fact that |today ‘Weo have descriptions from The cmployes of the Registry Divis our defer which, as said, was ne- | various Avitnesses who saw the man {on were considered the best of persons killed were near the Adams attles., That is not true 'he facts the pow 1 ro this street entrance, just outslde wheei " fhe i Russian-olshevists, taken by our | ere found the hodics of N e ',"“ ial 1 du e up troops, were disarmed and sent home, ,‘y“’l"“”f‘” ; "’”] ',”“,'l,”’ \l' ‘)y'f,,‘.“‘ ' terd more than 10 ¢ ers, taken with arms in hand, were | "t ,""“[,r, e el i SRS i Killed. That was made known to taem j"r e e e the floor t { beforehan Tho Austrians hanged | {1 juet finlshod work basement, Halr of t} all our wounded whom they captured = \ v oout it t sty | on the Italian front, and they attack The Dead. ! rise o e 1 rt 1 | ca one of our trains of wounded in Kolkow, dward I., €5 years old, had lifted up r 1c Siheria. Four yvears of a struggls for | 94 Weaveland Avenue; Post Oflice | the radiat < ; life have taught us to be on guard. | glerk ind replaced t y | We did no harm to German or Magyar Ladd, J. B., 22 years old, Salina, Within fow | prisoners who did not oppose us : Kan.; sailor from the Great Lakes Mosion mounted poli | though they were our encmics; we | Naval Training Station nien, Deputy Tnit oulid have killed thousands and thou- Miehlke, Ella, 19 years old, 3,820 Dieputy Sher I sands of them, but we allowed them | South Albany Avenue: sister injurey. | couple of sauads ¢ e to leave Siberia in peace, if they de- Wheeler, William Il., 46 yearg old, | from the Department red to mo homic When, however, | 6,016 Praire Avenue; I'ost Office | picketed around u they treacherousiy 1ttacked us, they carrier. A little ] 00 were of nccessity made harmless. We | il e e e e rehed up from the n made an oflicial announcement th i - | ther surrounded ever Germay nd Magvar caught by UGTES ke 5 S Skl i € ¢ us with rms in hand, would he given ! Rupicls G alast boL DAL o b ‘ polduanterNONRITo o trah vl we o) o | LPUSHERL S NACE IR SRRl E RS HU I oy persor o st cite many instance O mprecedented | WNE ofthoubulldin i brutalitie ymmitted on our wounded Police and government apera t " by the German, and cspecially, Mag. | once began to work on the thee t yar prisoners | membe of 1 A AR e me ¢ 1 1 Siberia. there ave today some | their anarchist sympsthizers placed vi 1 .uthers hundred thousand German and Mag- | the bomh. Th are warking ¢ L t liren will come % yoar prisone . great number of | evidence than mc Suli Gt fion 3 inz to ~:H'H e armed [t is these men | fheory iy 5 5 p Deg i our army the scene almost Bolsheviks Incapable of Raling. | | explosion ¢ Fhe Bolsheviks gave a sufficient | Drostiockihal tant it tiie: s .. |(dsscrinlions neipothimien | pable to rule he number of their| Wter S manager f the B. T | P - e 1 e s [[Chenh Rubbr company, 2w a man They consist chiefly of hungry mas | rin e furn south from Adam loath to work, who are getting 30 to | street jnst hefore the expiosion | 40 rublc a in the Red Guard. | was about to enter th nost ¢ fl_" Ihes t““«“ Doporkers among thom. | hut siopped to waleh fthe man run- | Aot sy g “1njMj,r‘x‘.’:\‘l“}\““‘ ninz. This delay prohably saved iy | st = Ak I R el - THE AUTOMATIC FIREMEN merce, transportation—everyihing is | selves, and they nced rest te v 5 = Ut A thndbtill ANl thee 1o nebins|hiiel inanorityl of tictn Lave axaiced | Uncle/Sgagesaysiilisiour duty) eat. That spells failure of the Bol- | peoble who. therefore, t o to guard against fire hevik government; the Bolsheviks |ize { . s 2 i ; | factory now ie a dige e now ng cverything to maintain Phie Adlies knowi the psychology | to our nation at war, wir power. They obey the Germans | of Russia today, and knowing the real | Globo! Shrnkles and Austrians to keep themselves in [ strength of Russia, will extend thebr | willl protect TouR [ power, The Germans, however, do not | help in the proper munner. | ok | BInniE apatngt: A [ want o consolidation of s ! {hat our army can Le of great - and pay for them- | What will happen in the future, 1 | wnce in this tusk; all of our boy I selves becaune all {#m unable 10 el The fact is, Resia |learned Russlan in the fowr yoars of | Aeel tndutei | i ill, powerless. I left to her fate, | war, and know to treat the peo- | premiims,; AL "nn Will obtain full control | ple. They kinow the Russtun people ] for details. | or ner. Rut the consolidation of R nd Russian situation. and they ve- | in is possible. That depends entirely | §ite only the gaod of Russia, T{ was | Globe Automatic ia. e effecti firm. friendly help, | accused of exaggerated Russopt m | 413 'Esopo Blagl for to he i hersel completely | by the Germans and Magyars and it is | artford, Conm| nle Rnssia needs order, which | the irony of fate that we had to suf- —— l\‘n] ihe Russians are ineapable of | fer €0 much in Russia. We hope and Sous charnomitkery J upbuildin The Russians are ex- | desire thaet our sacrifices be not offer- P l'v'mrr ihey have lost faith in them- | ed vain.'