The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 11, 1921, Page 11

Section Two ree The. seattle S tar | Pages 11 to 20 FEBRUARY HI, 1 a1. BY FRANK V. M ARTINER navy! for three years intelligence of- | ficer for the U.S. Asiatic Meet.) Thru all of their relations an tivities in Eastern Siberia, the Amer fean troops maintained ly one Policy, name! ‘ward neutrality, except when at tacked by the bands of roving parti gans under bolshevik leaders, The Japanese, however, with a Policy supposed to be akin to that ) which originally sent the allied troops | to Siberia, molded their policy into] : @ifféerent shapes, supporting milTtary leaders ry ng all political and : military elem to further her own aims and desires of controlling Si 7. beria and Asia. — SOCIAL, REVOLUTIONISTS | PERVED THE JAPS : long as the Japanese were tn power, thru the force of their three Russ agents, they were happy, but © when the social revolutionists took | over the power at Habarovak and Viadivostok from the Japanese = agents, Kalmikoff and Rozanoff, the| B Japanese were somewhat discomfited. © Their agent, Semenoff, at Chita, still remained because the Japanese had been there in force, and had prevent ed the social revolutionists from tak ing over his reins of power. The Japanese would have prevent ed the social revolutionists from tak ing over Vladivostok from oft —who had kept ¢ ida, the Czech chief and former commander in-chief of the Kolchak army, from power in Vladivostok—but the Amer feans forced the Japanese to keep hands off in that respect to prevent bloodshed. The American position maintained that Japanese interven tion by force would have regulted in thousands of deaths. JAPA OVERRIDE U.S. € PROTEST In February, 1920, the official American proclamation regarding evacuation of American troops was made public and the withdrawing of American forces was begun, term $nating on April 1, 1920. During that time Japanese activities were ‘dor. Mant. On April 2, one e ¥ after the | last Americans had left f and were fiearly all sailing on the Jong homeward journey, the Ja; ese took over every fort In Viadi tok. Later they occupied Amer, jean expeditionary force war ters building, in spite of a protest by I) Gen. Graves. Let me refer rather closely to my [major military operations by Japan Ben April 4 and 5, in which Japan took over a line from Vladivostok to § of Viadivostok, an operation in which more than 1,000 lives were lost and E millions of rubles of property were @amaged, 1 had a rather harrowing experience—an experience that 1 Shave referred to as being under Jap- lanese fir This may have some bearing also the shooting of Lieut. Langdon, I was under fire leas than a block m the place where he was shot. MACHINE IN ACTIVE At.955 p. m., the night of April & lookout on board the U. 8. bany sighted two red flashes on of the Rills in the vicinity of t river. Rifle fire was heard 12 in the direction of the rail ation and Egersheld. 4 nt ashore to investigate and found Lieut. J. &. nrup of the Army at the joint army and navy Intelligence office, over which flew the American flag. Under the bal the Japanese had a machine fan and they were popping away the Zemstvo building, headquar rs of the Viadivostok provisidnal Fovernment, The telephone wire leonnecting the office and the Al ny had been severed. I started to see what was happening in lull in the firing. Tn front of the house occupied by Gen. Inagaki, chief of staff Japanese army, I was challenge two Japanese sentries. The chal we was a problem. Whether tt H @ grunt of surprise over sec or whether it was a per ge, I could not know der if that was similar to ithe circumstances surrounding. the ith of Lieut. Langdon. TUNATELY THEY IN'T SHOOT FIRST EAt any rate I stopped and in G formed the sentry that I was an PAterican officer, That was obvious Fortunately, the sentries had not Mot first before chalienging, as Pas their habit in such military Bancuver: “Stay away trom the Czech head Quarters!” said a Japanese civilian Who understood English, as he, came Gut of the darkness behind the sen Wiles, I had told the wentries that 1 wan to the American crulser the Albany, but, turning off after being rmitted to pass I went down eUangkaya street to Czech head @varters for information | Gen, Cecek wan inside. Reports Japanese were taking over the city (Former lieutenant inahe American |r had be (Copyright, 1921, Chicago Daily News) FIRING BREAKS ¢ ac} hat of straightfor-| | INSTANC | ATTACKS ON AMERICANS }ered from remarks mac jadivostok, | )@iary for what followed, for in the} | Habarovek, captured the. entire city | Mough. I was in full upiform.| |quarrels, But thes usually settled with f the arrest of the p by thelr own military policernen had already come to him that the| | that they already had the railroad | Station, were fortitying themselves|cidents, including a Japanese patrol @ all strategic points, that several | attack upon a U, 8. naval patrol in _ AMERICAN OFFICER TELLS HOW HE WAS U.S. MEN ATTACKED BY NIPPON SOLDIE Mutual Agreement to End Friction Dodged by Mikado’ 8 Commander Czechs not taking part in the af n shot. I started back to the Albany in earnest this time |having the Information I wished, Tt HE Sk MEN PAL As I stepped from the door of Czech headquarters firing broke out afresh and Svetlanskaya street was swept with bullets. 1 saw two Chi e and a Ruse fall dead. 1 iged into the first alley and con 4 down the hi toward the ‘bor. As I came upon the stair case known as “Brooklyn bridge” leading to the water fre firing broke out all along there and I was cut off from the ship. I thought of the Y. MC. A. hut. but a Jap machine gun opened up between me and the hut, The firing was certainly indiscriminate, for bul lets were whistling all arougd me, I to the commercial port where I remained for 45 minutes, in company with Dr. V. Gir sa, Crech minister to Russia, Anoth or luli came I managed to get to the ship, I remained unt morning. In explanation later the Japanese { that their forces had been at lacked by Russians, Please remem ber, tho, that Rozanoff no longer was in power there. There was no atrocity committed against me, no overt act. But let us consider t & mass Of reports on American soldiers were ‘© by Jupanese soldiers and num reported at that time to Washifgton T have r these outrages but will st they In, ate length is OF JAP nk Raeclski on November with in way back from Habar natok, when, at 9:30 p. ovak to V m., he stepped from the train at Via | zemekaya to fill his canteen, He was arrested by a equad of J nes sol diers and taken to the stat he was surrounded by Ja Huding one Fivilian, who, was either accusing Baelsk{ of attacking him, or | awkine Baelski to find the man who had struck him, A Japanese officer aprived, and after a few words, ar. | dered the soldiers to hold the Ameri |oag while the civilian struck him tn face, Baelski swore that he was sober, that he was unarmed, that he had had previously no relations what ever with the Japanese, The inci dent was called to the attention of Gen, Otant, who, after investigating, Itted the facts aw set forth, and expressed regret. On the evening of December 7. Lieut. Arthur Drew, traveling in a bex car with Lieut. Gabrielson and two private soldiers, arriv t Much naya from Spasskoe, At Muchnaya he left the car with one of the enlist ed men to seek food. Finding noth ing, he sent the man back and start ed back himself, his elbow barely touching a Japanese soldier in pass ing. SEVERAL JAPS BEAT U. 8. LIEUTENANT Ten feet farther on the soldier at tacked Drew from behind, striking Drew in the face as he turned. Drew knocked the man away dnd started for him, The soldier was not armed, therefore was not a sentry on duty He went back to a Japanese sen. try, who came back with him and knocked Drew down with the butt of his rifle. The local guard wag turn ed out and Drew was severely beaten and stabbed several times with a ba onet. He was carried to his car. Se eral Japanese entered, one informing Drew that he was a doctor. He id he was sorry for what had happene 1 when he had finished dressing Drew's wounds the doctor wanted to shake hands. Drew stated that inasmuch as he had been struck from behind, beaten by many and struck when down en that he did not care to nds. The Japanese doctor then struck Drew in the face and retr cated behind the other Japanese. Japanese official investigation etted that Drew was drunk, that he had assaulted a sent Testi. mony of four Russian officers who had witnessed the incident bore out Drew's at ment and likewise tes tified that Drew was sober. here was another incident In which an American soldier guarding a car which contained American property, had his reyolver taken from him by Japanese who boarded |the car, later taking some of the American property. Upon represen [tation by the American militar thorities the pistol was return: 4 offered, nor was no apology w missing material found, Qf course, it Is to be expected that |when troops of several nations come into contact there will be trouble. This was noted in France where Eng: lish, French and American troops 1s lindividuals (occasionally got quarrels Contrast to this th trols in Vi resting Americans and taking them to Japanese jails, with or without cation It was following several such in [GIRL MAY BE MODEL FOR EVE | wirl Eve Mias Jane Carroll us CocasIONs, AS) Vladivostok which gimoat resulted in the annihilation of our patrol, I was requested te. draw up a form { agreement whereby Japanese pa . It was suggested that the pa- in no case use fitearma, y be equipped with whistles warnings or to call This was fully agreed to by the Jap but they had to send to Japan for whistles and when I left Vi vostok In August last year for ho the whistles had not yet artived. turn thelr prisoners over to Amer patrols for action, Americans would dase of Japanese arrests. 0 private soldiers, | do Nkewise in the ay ti _ FIRED ON BY JAPS! JANE CARROLL A MODERN EVE? .-: | | Sculptor Sees in Her His. * jcoln McConnell, Long-Sought Ideal And #0, perhaps, Eve has been found. Not the first woman, heroine of the first garden party, but ber replica, Not the splendid full-tig lured Mother of the World, but the thindimbed and fragtle, If this marble endure. It all depends upon whether George Gray Barnard eventually decides that Mixs Jane Carroll, who appears | with the Greenwich Village Follies at the Metropolitan next week, posnessed of loveliness such as one might expect to find tn a bit of femininity which sprang tnto life and | maidenhood simultaneously only a moment ago—a loveliness character ized by the innocence of childhood It was two years ago that Parnard began to work on his Adam and Eve group. He began work on Adam first and went abroad thruout the art world for Eva Many came, but none were chosen, “I wanted a | typical American girl,” he explained & few days ago when talking of Mins Carroll. “But I wanted a girl not a woman. "I have hoped to find my ideal among girls of 14 to 16. But thoee | little girls rarely know how to pose. | | For posing is acting—the easence of | real acting. 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