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New-York tribune., 1918-08-16
Czecho-Slovak
Forces in Siberia
In Grave Danger
Outnumbered by Foes and
Lack Every Sort of
Equipment
Prompt Aid Needed
Allies Assistance Must Be on
Larger Scale Than Yet
Contemplated
Prompt Aid Needed

LONDON. Aug. 15.-The Czecho-Slo-
vsks in Siberia are in dangerous po-
s;t;on and are liable to be cut off alto
ostber. says the correspondent of "The
Times" at Vladivostok. Only fraction
of those between the Volga and Lake
Raikal are armed, and all are deficient
in every sort of equipment. They are
.rt off from the Far East and it is i'm
nossible to learn what is happening to
them. The correspondent says there is
much apprehension concerning them in
vladivostok, and adds:
"The Czechs here are pathetically anx-
ious to push west and assist their
brothers. They are contemplating des-
perate measures in order to reach them,
hut their force is ridiculously small
compared to their opponents, while
they lack most auxiliary equipment and
are deficient even in the essentials.
Active Cooperation Imperative
"If it is the Allied intention to hold
the rear while the Czechs do the fight
Ing, General Dieterich's small force
might we'll be annihilated, but it is
inconceivable that the Allies will re-
frain from active cooperation, and that
cooperation must be on a larger scale
than hitherto contemplated"
In an editorial "The Times" empha-
sizes the urgency of Fastening Allied
action. 1t says that the Czechs have
been driven back from the Ussuri front
and also have suffered reverses in East
ern Russia. 1t is imperative, "The
Times" declares, to send help to West
ern Siberia through Harbin, whence, it
says, Lake Baikal ought to be reached
in moderate strength within reasonable
time.
British recognition of the Czecho-
Slovak nation is commented on favor
ably by the newspapers. "The Daily
Graphic" says that it means that in
addition to the other war aims the
Allies are now committed to the for
nation of separate and independent
Czecho-Slovak nation out of the ruins
Of the Austrian empire. DR.. Dillon.
writing in The Daily Telegraph" says:
To Break Up Hapsburg Monarchy
"These timely measures tell Of the
determination of the Entente Powers to
break up the Hapsburg monarchy and
Its constituent nationalities, and to
take as much thought about reconstruct
tion OF the east as of the west of Eu
rope The Importance of the declara-
tlon lies in the implied resolve of the
Allied governments to carry on the war
until the solution is reached.''
Reuters, Limited, learns that the
British troops on their way to join the
Czecho-Slovak troops on the Ussuri
'front.' were received by the eCzechs with
the greatest enthusiasm at Nicolai and
elsewhere.
THE Ussuri River joins the Amur
near Khabarovsk, north of Vladivostok.
The Czechs have been engaged with the
Bolsheviki in this region for several
weeks.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-16

guard of the army which has arrived
IN the neighborhood of Vladivostok.
knowing the limited capacity of the
Siberian Railroad in it's eastern ex-
tremity to transport considerable mill
tary forces and supplies with speed
and realizing the danger of interrupt
tlon of such traffic by hostile Boil
sheviki and German officered elements
along the road in that part Of Siberia
1t is understood the Japanese general
staff has planned to strike directly at
Lake Baikal, the most important cen.
tre of action on the Siberian Railroad
Many Already in Siberia
To accomplish this, while the first ex-
peditionary force which may be land
ing at Vladivostok, headed by General
Otani, is operating from there, con-
siderable number of Japanese troops
already in Manchuria and along the
line of the railroad running northward
from Darien, formerly Port Arthur, are
in position to be speedily dispatched
to Harbin, whence they can be for
warded westward to Lake Baikal, or can
be diverted eastwardly to open up the
section of the Siberian railroad termi-
mating at Vladivostok.
For military reasons it is not pos
sible to even hint at the number of
troops that might be available for such
service, but it is recalled that in an ad-
dress delivered last week Premier
Terauchi stated Japan was prepared to
employ much larger force than had
been originally contemplated to Siberia
if it should be necessary to check the
activities Of the Austro- German pris-
oners and the elements under their con
troll.
Let's Sent Against Allies
An official dispatch from Switzerland
to-day says that it is reported from
Moscow that operation of military
trains transporting Bolshevik troops to
be sent against the Czecho-S -Slovaks
have been considerably hindered on &C
count of risings among the railroad
employees. Trotzky is said to have
threatened severe measures against the
railway men.
Professor T. G. Masaryk, the COM
mander in chief Of the Czecho-Slovak
force, who is in Washington, is of the
opinion that the retirement of the
Soviets from Moscow may have been
compelled by refusal Of Lettish troops
to operate against the Czecho-S -Slovaks
1t is understood that an army of Let's
commanded by German officers, was
sent to oppose the Czechs.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-16
Bolshevik Troops
esert Mosco1u:
Take Gold Reserue

AMSTERDAM, Aug. Is. Soviet
troops have begun to evacuate Mos
COW. The gold reserves, which had
been in the basement of the Kremlin,
already have been removed to a secret
place.
LONDON, Aug. 15-The Soviet gov
eminent has issued a proclamation de-
elaring that the Russian republic is in
danger, according to telegrams from
Helsingfors received in Stockholm and
quoted by the correspondent of "The
Times" there.
The Petrograd Soviet has removed
% Kronstadt owing to the insecurity
Of the city. Bands of armed peasants
are reported marching on Petrograd
from surrounding districts. They de-
clare that they are starving and that
'he Red Guards have stolen all their
food.
Dissatisfaction with the Soviet is
'aid to prevail everywhere in Russia.
dispatches received in London on
monday reporting that Premier Lenine
and War Minister Trotzky had fed to
'he naval base at Kronstadt added that
oil the government departments also
"'ulo be removed there. The fight of
-"n'ne and Trotzky was said to be due
New-York tribune., 1918-08-16

water poured in rapidly, filling the
holds. Captain Evans ordered his men
INTO the small boats and they stood
close by watching the work of the
U-boat. Then Captain Evans and sew
eral volunteers started aboard to save
the ships papers and the personal ef-
fects of the men.
The whole outfit was captured. The
men were ordered back to their boat
and Captain Evans was taken aboard
the submarine, while its German crew
expressed its delight with wild cheer
ing. Then the U-boat commander had
four bombs placed on the Penstone
and she went down.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-16

to threats by the Social Revolutionists
of the Left that they we're about to be-
gin reign of terror there. Whether
the Soviet troops were forced to de-
part from Moscow is not clear, but the
loss of the city to the Soviet govern
ment undoubtedly will be a serious
blow to their cause.
Moscow, the ancient capital Of Rus
sia, was made the Soviet capital in
March.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-16
British Operating
From Persia Reach
Baku on Caspian Sea

LONDON, Aug. 15.-A British force
from Northwestern Persia has reached
the Caspian Sea and taken over part
Of the defences of Baku.
Whether the Allies will be able to
hold Baku permanently, in view of the
difficulties of transporting supplies, is
too early to predict. However, if the
British can hold their position short
time longer, which now seems likely,
they probably will be able to cut off
the enemy from an outlet to the sea.
thus protecting the important oil fields
of the Baku district.
1t appears from the meagre infor-
nation at hand in London that the
British detachment voyaged by steam
er from Enzelli, Persia. to Baku. de-
monstrating that the Allied hold on
the Caspian Sea already is fairly es-
tabished.
The Allied naval forces now un-
doubtedly will endeavor to make Sc
cure their communications. and once
this task is accomplished there will
be hardly possibility of the Central
Powers gaining possession of the Baku
oil fields.
The brief advices received here in
dicated that the Russian General Dok
uchaieff was commanding at Baku.
The British advance through Persia
from Bagdad was accomplished under
the greatest difficulties. In the noun
famous sections they were resisted by
few groups of tribesmen, but they
quickly overcame this opposition. The
British force crossed the Persian from
tier and reached Enzelli on the Caspian
Sea by the way of Hamadan.
The situation in the Caucasus has
been involved since the conclusion Of
the Brest-Litovsk peace. Under that
treaty Turkey was given important ter
ritory in the southern Caucasus, and
the Turks shortly proceeded to occupy
it. They met with considerable re-
sistance from the Armenians in the dis
trict, however, particularly when they
endeavored to push even beyond the
limits set by the treaty made with the
Bolsheviki and moved up the coast Of
the Caspian Sea toward Baku.
= AS long back as April 81 an Armenian
New-York tribune., 1918-08-16
Regiment ofU S.
Army Is Landed
At Wadiuostok
Continued from page 1

vostok to Nikolsk, the junction of the
Manchurian eastern line and the ST.
bcrian road, is in the hands of the Al
lies. This permits of striking a blow
directly at Lake Baikal, where the op-
position is concentrated, because the
Manchurian road has been constantly
under guard by the Japanese, by ar
rangement with the Chinese govern
ment. There is little doubt that this
will be the first movement Of conse-
quence from Vladivostok.
The reported arrival of British troops
at Baku is another feature Of supreme
Importance to the Allies. Not onlv
does it mean that the German control
OF the Baku oil lands and refneries is
seriously threatened, but it opens an
other possible road into Russia from
the south for Allied troops to enter.
Little Opposition Likely
Several weeks ago a body of British
soldiers succeeded in pushing from
Mesopotamia through to Resh. Ships
were acquired at Enzeli, the seaport of
Resh, and it no doubt is this force that
has reached Baku
Movement from Baku to country con
trolled by the Don Cossacks offers few
practical difficulties. Providing the
Georgians are friendly, as it is believed
they are, in spite of the fact that Geor-
gla made separate peace with the
Central Powers, the British force can
reach Darrell Pass, which is the easiest
route northward From that point on
with the exception of a few small hos.
tile Mahometan hill tribes in North.
western Caucasia, the difficulties in
reaching the land Of the Don Cossacks
are so small as to be negligible.
A railroad line runs by this route
from Baku, but the condition of that
road is not known here.
9th Infantry Lands
The American troops, which to day be
gan to disembark at Vladivostok anc
AAHiiSuioLCiJ VIII JOIN Cne lnCernatlOrA
force to aid the Czecho- -Slovak armv ir
its campaign in Siberia, were the 27tt
regular infantry regiment from Ma.
Mia, and will be followed by anothe,
regiment from the Philippines and ad
ditional troops from the United States
The 9th Regiment has not been re.
crulted to war strength and the exact
number of men is not definitely known
here, but is estimated at from 1.2O(
to 1900. Colonel Henry D. Styer COM
mands the 9th Regiment. The entire
American force will be under Major
General Graves, who has been com.
manding regular army division in
Camp Kearny, Cal.
Japanese Landing Possible
Guarded intimations are given in
well-nformed official quarters here
that the Japanese government already
has anticipated the need for speedy as
sistance to the Czecho-S -Slovaks in
Western Siberia, who have been almost
cut off from communication with their
brethren who constituted the advance
New-York tribune., 1918-08-16
Heavy Firing Heard of
Coast of North Caroline

PORTSMOUTH, N. c., Aug. 10
Heavy firing was heard to-day off the
North Carolina coast in the vicinity
where a German submarine has been
operating.
Beginning about o'clock this morn
ing, the booming of two guns, one OF
larger calibre than the other. contin-
ued for about forty minutes. To those
on shore it seemed that both guns
were being fired simultaneously, until
at last only the lighter gun was heard.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-16
Russia Agrees to Pay
Films for War Booty
Especial Dispntch to The Tribunal

Especial Dispatch to The Tribune)
STOCKHOLM, Aug. 15.-The terms
OF the peace treaty between Finland
and Russia, which have just been pro-
claimed, provide that Russia shall aban-
don East Karelia in return for terri
tory south of Viborg and Kexholm.
Finland shall receive remuneration
for the booty of war taken by Russia,
but shall pay her part Of the expense s
Of the war.
East Karelia is district bordering
Finland on the east, through which
runs the Murmansk Railway.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-16

forces retiring from Archangel, it is
learned here.
Another Allied detachment is push
ing toward Kotlass, 260 miles south of
Archangel, on the Dvina River.
South of the Volga River Generals
Alexieff and Denikine apparently are
endeavoring to amalgamate their anti
bolshevik forces with the army of the
Czecho-Slovaks.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-16
viii Begin
Siberior, Railroad Work
(By The Associnted pre.H

VLAD1VOSTOK. Sunday Aug. IL
Elghty-four members of the Stevens
Railroad Commission, sent from United
States to Russia in My. 1917, to assist
in the rehabilitation of Russian rail-
roads, and who have been at Nagasaki
for the past eight months, have arrived
here
They will begin work on the Siberian
railroad. behind the Czecho-S -Slovak
lines. between this city and Khaba-
yOrsk
New-York tribune., 1918-08-16

When you figure that
their replacement value is
from $45 to $50, it makes
you wonder why we reduce
any of our finer suits to $25
and $50.
Simply habit-the good,
old habit of clearing out
broken lines
ROGERS PEET COMPANY
Broadway Broadway
at 18th St Fhe at saith St.
Broadway Corners" Fifth Ave,
at Warren at 41st St.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-16
Russian Workers Organize

Announcement was made yesterday
of the organization of the Russian
Union of Peasants, body of Russian
workers in this country opposed to
Bolshevism, with branches in a dozen
cities. The headquarters in New York
is at 144 East Fourteenth Street. 1t has
the backing of Count Ilya rolstoy, Gen
eral X. Oberucheff and others and the
support of several institutions and or
CARNATIONS, including the Carnegie
Institute. A manifesto issued by it
says:
"Arse, brothers, to the struggle!
/ Unite into harmonious family of toll
ing people. Do not permit again that
you be a slave. Decide your own affairs.
Devote your strength, your knowledge,
your energy, to the benefit of your peo-
pie. Then only we will be free honest
people, sons of democratic Russia"
Anton Saulich is president of the or
ganization; George Schorin, vice-presi-
dent; Pavel Kostugailo, treasurer, and
Nicholas Avraloff. secretary.
France Gets $2OO,OOO,OOO
WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.- France to-
day was given a loan of $200.000,o00
by the Treasury, bringing the total
credits to France to $2,065, 100000
New-York tribune., 1918-08-16

hundred miles down the
railway from Arhange Paberes hsk
Omega Bay (2) the fugives troops have
reached Baku 3 by Persia where
the domi-
mated by the CzecoSlovak while Don
(5 hostile Lnne The Bohev evacuane
the latter
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-08-06
GRAIN AND MILLING NEWS.

Fully 25 per cent of Umatilla coun-
tvs (Oregon) grain crop for the year
will be handled in bulk. With the es-
timated yield of the county approx
mately 100000 bushels, this means
100000 bushels are to be handled
in this manner The Farmers Union
To aid wheat growers of the west,
who have suffered severe losses
through winter killing of their crops
and through drouth, President Wilson
has placed S5,O00,OOO at the disposal
of the treasury and agricultural de
partments, it was announced. The
sum will be issued in loans to the
farmers in the affected sections gen.
orally through the federal land banks.
The loans, the department announced.
probably will not be made for more
than So an acre, with maximums of
100 or $50 acres. 1t is stated it is not
intended that the fund should be used
as loans to- farmers who have bank
ing collateral and can otherwise Sc
cure loans.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-08-06
VULTURE LAWYERS PREY
ON HELPLESS FAMILIES
Take Advantage of Worry of Par
ents to Pry Loose Blssd
Money.

"Buzzard lawyers" that particu-
lar brand of wartime shysters who
prey upon the worried and distract
ed parents of soldiers whose names
appear in the casualty lists from
"oyer there" filching, or attempt
ing to fitch, from them varying
sums of money for collecting the
back pay, or settling up the affairs
of the fighting man, have been dealt
another hard wallop by the United
States treasury department.
The treasury department found
it necessary to issue a general
warning to parents and other rela
tives of soldiers that such practices
on the part of attorneys is absolute
graft; that no Intervention by
legal representative is needed TO OBJ
tain anything that can possibly be
recovered in any manner as the re-
suit of the wounding or injury of a
soldier or sailor.
All arrangements for settling up
the affairs of American fighting
men in their relations with the gov
eminent are attended to by the le-
gal representative and bureaus of
the government at not a cent of cost
to the soldiers family.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-08-06
THE UKRAINE is NEW
MENACE go GERMANY
Along the Western Front
Peasants Revolt.

Paris.--The assassination of Field
Marshal Won Eichhorn in the Ukraine
is regarded in army circles as impor-
tant emphasis of Germany's rapidly
developing troubles on her eastern
front. The situation in the Ukraine,
where the entire population of 25,00O,-
900 small landholders has risen in guer-
rilla revolt against Won Eichhorn's sol
diers, has an important bearing upon
the future military operations on the
western front.
The Won Eichhorn command in Cthe
Ukraine is composed of about 80 Ger
man divisions, which, though medi-
OGRE landstrum units, might have been
reckoned of some aid to Won linden
burgs badly punished forces in the
western battle area.
over a month ago the Ukranian
farmers revolted against the pro-Ger-
man Skoropadsky government, whose
conscripting them into the Ukraine ar
my they regarded as a plot to restore
the land to the aristocratic proprie-
tors. Won Eichhorn with the subtle
German purpose of gaining strategic
advantages by maintaining his troops
in the Ukraine, offered the Skoropad-
sky government his aid in quelling the
revolts.
The occupation of their farms by
German troops were more than the
peasants were willing to stand and
they rose to a man against not only
the Skoropadsky government, but the
German invaders. The assassination
of Won Eichhorn is the strongest indi'
cation of the progress now made by
this guerilla war. Latest reports are
that chaos reigns throughout the Tx
raine and instead Of any hope of re
lieving the situation on the western
front, Won Eichhorn troops may them
selves need achievements.
Moreover, the rich crops on which
Germany counted so strongly will be
destroyed in a wholesale manner by
guerilla warriors and economic pro
duction of all kinds paralyzed. The
entire Ukraine is hostile battlefield
for Germany and the killing of the
field marshal may presage graver oc
currences. The same bolshevikisn
which turned Russia over to Germany
seems now to be wrapping its Shiny
coils about the invaders. The defea
of the Germans and the red guards b.
the allied forces under Anglo-Frencl
officers on the Thurman coast a few
days ago is also regarded here as thu
most important development in tn,
Russian situation.
BY WILBUR FORREST.
Copyright, 1918, by the Tribune AS
sOciatiOn)
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-08-06
LUMBER AND WOODWORKING.

A government sawmill with capacity
of 100000 feet per day will be To-
Gated on Olympic peninsula in Wash
ington to cut spruce for airplane pro-
gram. Great quantities of spruce are
located on the peninsula and a rail-
road will be built direct to the mill.
This will be the largest sawmill on
the Pacific coast.
The new wage scale for lumber and
timber workers arranged by Colonel
b. p. Disque, head of the spruce di-
vision. grants an advance in wages
of about 10 per cent and recognizes
the eight-hour day. 1t went into eff
feet August 1 and applies to all lum-
Der and timber workers in the In
land Empire.
c. w. Beardmore of Priest River,
Idaho, who recently returned from an
eastern business trip with large con-
tracts for lumber, has completed the
purchase of several thousand acres
of timber land in the Hoodoo valley
and Pack river country. The timber
is mostly white pine. The output of
the mill will be increased to about
100000 feet per day.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-08-06
LoGGERS HAVE ORGANIZED.
Loyal Legion Met Aug. 5 With the
Spruce Production Head-Eight-
Hour Day.

Portland, Ore.-Fifteen hundred
members of the Loyal Legion of Log
gers and Lumbermen, representing the
local organizations of the legion In
Oregon and Washington west of the
Cascades, were present to meet with
Colonel Disque. head of airplane spruce
production in the northwest, at the
Auditorium here, Monday, August D.
The workers organized in such manner
as to take advantage of the resolution
adopted by employers representing the
lumber interests in Montana, Idaho,
Washington and Oregon, when they
met here July 10 and agreed to admit
representatives of the workers into
their conferences.
These resolutions declared for the
basic eight-hour day now and after
the war, the right of any man to work
when capable or needed and for con-
ferenees to decide disputed questions.
Members of the loyal legion east of
the Cascades will meet in Spokane, at
the armory, August IL, to organize in
similar manner.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-08-06
AIR PLANES WILL
BOMB GERMANY
OFF THE MAP

w. II. Workman, of an Aeroplane
company, says he can have 5000 to
10000 bombing machines ready for
delivery May 1, 1919, with proper
cooperation of government authori-
ties. These planes can be landed in
France 70 hours from the time they
leave the erecting she'd in Ohio.
The machine weighs about 10
tons fully equipped with explosives
and machine guns, and carries a
crew of seven men. Five thousand
of them could drop on Germany
10000 tons of explosives every
night, or enough to blow up the
whole country in 60 days, Mr.. Work
man said.
Forty aviators at the Mineola
field have petitioned the govern
ment for permission to make the
Transatlantic flight
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-08-06
PLAN TO INDUCT COLLEGE
BOYS INTO v. S. ARMY
Would Withdraw Officers Training
Camps for the New Work.

Recent advices from Washington
state that all reserve officers train
ing camps will be withdrawn from all
universities and that students over Is
years of age will be indicted into
the service on matriculation and allow
ed to remain in college for four years.
The new plan provides no training
for officers, but at the completion of
four years military training in the
colleges men will be commissioned or
assigned to the ranks, according to
the records they have made.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-08-06
PROFITEERING ON THE
SOLDIERS is HALTED
Our War Department Forced to
Stop Petty Practice at Puget
Sound Cities.

Camp Lewis.-The names of deal
ers who charge soldiers more than
trey do civilians for the same ar
ticles will be posted on the samp
bulletin boards and given to the
commercial clubs of the cities
wher the discrimination is prac-
ticed.
1t is the desire of Secretary Ba-
ker that furloughs be granted to
members of the Jewish faith for
The New Year, from noon of Septem-
Der to the morning of September
8, and for the Day of Atonement,
from noon of September IA to the
morning of September II.
A camp exchange. which is exs
pected to be the largest of any of
the post stores now in operation,
will be established here.
The weekly health report shows
there were but 81 cases of illness
in the whole week, with no deaths.