Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-08-19
Czecho-S1ouak Rising Reads Like Fiction

| Siberian government guaranteed us
unmolested passage, and, I taught by
| bitter experience that 1t was dangerous
| 70 attack even unarmed Czecho-
A Slovaks, let us proceed to Vladivostok.
| true, this concerned only the trains in
| the vicinity of Irkutsk; the trains west
| or lrkutsk were-under the orders of
! Moscow-attacked in the same manner
but always with the same result;
everywhere the bolsheviks were dis
armed.
The arrest of the members of our
national council took place Immediate
~ before these treacherous attacks.
Ihen, thousands Of armed Germans
and >Magyars in the vicinity of Omsk,
krasnoyarsk and Chita forced our
army between Volga and Irkutsk to
take the Siberian administration into
their hands, Coward the end of June.)
But even at this stage we were trying
| to enter into negotiations with Mos
| COW. But Moscow, i. e.: Lenine and
TrotZky, proclaimed us murderers and
began mobilization against as. Under
these circumstances our troops were
forced to take possession OF the bridges
| over the Volga
Populaee Friendly.
II must mention the fact that our
| defense which, as said, WAS neces-.
stated by treacherous attacks and
everywhere resulted in the dis
armament Of the bolsheviks, was joy
fully greeted by the majority of the
Russian population. Anti bolshevists
| took advantage of the situation and
| overthrow the seviets. We did not
| interfere with their internal affairs
ieven after the open conflict. We only
l)disafrned thos who attacked us, 70
make repetition of attacks impossible.
The Germans were trying to spread
rumors that our volunteers Committed
brutalities during these battles That is
| not true. The facts are this: Russian
| holshevists. taken by our troops. were
disamed and sent home, but the Mag
| vars and German prisoners, taken with
arms in hand, were killed. That was
made known to them beforehand. The
Austrians hanged all our wounded
| whom they captured on the Italian
front, and they attacked one of our
trains Of woundedsin Siberia Four
years of a struggl for life have taught
us to be ION guard. We did no harm
| to German or Magyar prisoners who
did not oppose US altho they were our
enemies; we could have killed thou
sands and thousands Of them, but we
allowed them to- leave Siberia in
| peace, II they desired to gov home.
I, When, however, they etreacherously
attacked us. they were Of necessity
made harmless. We made an official
announcement that every German and
| Magyar caught by us with arms in
hand, would be given no quarter. On
the contrary we could cite many in
stances of unprecedented brutalities
committed on our wounded by the Ger
man, and especially, Magyar prisoners.
German Prisoners Armed.
I'm Siberia there are today some
hundred thousand German and Mag
var prisoners, great number Of whom
are armed 1t Is thes men who offer
considerable resistance to our army
the Russian bolshevike surrender after
the, first shot.
! 1.-THE bolsheviks gave a sufficient
proof Of the fact that they are incap-
able to rule. The number Of their
| fighting supporters is very indefinite.
/ They consist chiefly Of hungry masses,
loath to work. who are getting thirty
to forty rubles day in the Red Guard.
They have no workers among them.
A great number Of the bolshevik Off
ciaI, steal just like the officials Of the
cars regime. Industry. commerce.
! transportAtion-ev thing Is at a stand
still, and. there is nothing to- eat. That