The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-06
But Ambassador Francis TakeS
No Action.
Demand Comedies With Arrival
of Hun Official.
MAKE THREE BIG DEMANDS
Francis Denies Americans
Helped Opposition.
No Satisfactory Evidence Is
Found of Any Plots.
(By the Associated PressD


Moscow, Sunday, April 2S (de-
layed demands that the
American and French consuls at Vlad-
ivostok be recalled have brought no
official statement from Ambassador
Francis and French Ambassador Nou-
lens.
The definite demands made by For
eign Minister Tchitcherin were coin
cident with the arrival of Count Won
Mirbach. the German ambassador. in
Moscow.
Regardless of the strong pressure
, put on the entente embassies in the
last few weeks to recognize the soviet
government, which is making full use
of the Siberian incident, the position
of the embassies remains unchanged.
The Demands Made.
The Bolsheviki demands on Ambas
sador Francis were:
First, the removal of John K. Cald-
well, American consul at Vladivostok;
second, investigation on his part in the
alleged negotiations with the Ameri-
can legation at Peking. and third. the
attitude of the American government
toward the soviet republic.
| Ambassador Francis has sent a COM
| munfcation to the BolSheviki govern
ment regarding the alleged participa-
| ton of Americans, French and Brit
i
connection with which the Bolsheviki
| put plainly the question of their gov
ernment. The American embassy, the
note says, carefully scrutinized the
! documents submitted by the Russian
government. In the American view
point, the documents failed to show
any connection of American officials
in these plots. -t-
Americans Held AlOof.
/ The American embassy, the am
! bassador continues, interprets. the
documents to show only that persons
planning a counter revolt contem-
| plated asking the assistance Of Con-
sui Caldwell, Admiral Knight and the
representatives of the allies in Peking,
| including the American minister, but
/ failed to show either the consumma-
| ton of the hopes of the revolutionaries
participated or promised aid in any
| way. 1t is deemed unfortunate in the
present state of Russian international
! relations, that such flimsy charges
should arise.
State Dept. Has Protest Now
! Washington, May 6.-The' state de-
partment has received a protest from
the soviet republic of Russia assert
ing that the American consul at Vlad-
ivostok improperly encouraged a
movement for establishing an auton-
omous Siberian government
! This protest. also delivered to en-
! tente diplomats. suggests that the rela-
tions between these parties and coun-
ter-revolutionists in Siberia have been
over-friendly.
| No Reply Yet.
While the state department has not
Vet made it's reply, it was indicated
! that it will answer the soviet with the
! statement that the V1adivostok consul
! has been guilty of no improprieties
land has given no encouragement to a
separate government movement
!, The department suggests that the
! consul there necessarily had to deal
| with many factions, and that these
dealings formed the basis for the
soviet objection.
1t was pointed out clearly. however.
that the governments attitude is
> neutral as between factions and that
there is no desire to do other than to
help Russia at this CRITICAL time.
Official Flag Is Red.
| The department was advised that
the official title of the soviet govern
ment is "Ru sian socialistic federal
soviet republic" It's insignia is a red
flag with gold letters.
Consul Butler Wright, of the Amer
ican-Petrograd embassy, reached
Washingt today and arranged to
give Secretary. Lansing a complete ac-
count of developments in the Russian
situation up to the time he quit the
country with a party of Americans.
Dewitt Poole has been appointed
acting consul geenral at Moscow, fill
ing the place made vacant by the sud-
cen death of Madden Summers.