Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-11-10
ADVENTURES 0F CZECHOS READS
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Story of Fight Through 2,60O Miles of Hstile
 Territory Thrills.

Territory Thrills.
 Vladivostok, Sept. 12 Correspond ence of The Assoicated Press. .)-Gen- eral Gaida's Czecho-Slovaks fight ing their way through 2,60O miles of hostile territory furnishes tale no less thrilling than that related of Cor tez' drive from Vera Cruz to the an- cient Aztec capital in the sixteenth century. Like his illustrious predeces- sor, he saw his forces grow as his successes multiplied, but his success es, also like those of the adventerous Spaniard, were due to his unflagging courage and ingenious tactics and to the loyalty of his men.
 When the order came from Petro- grad countermanding the permission given for the free movement of the CZechoSlovaks toward Vladivostok, it found them strung out in thin line from the Volga to Vladivostok. A 12 day truce, following the first serious clash at Irkutsk when the Bolsheviki 1 undertook to disarm trainload of Czechs, applied only to Eastern Sib- eria and was utilized by Gaida's men to get running start for the plunge ! through the thickest of the struggle. Thereafter the policy appears to have l been to constantly prepare and exc cute some new surprise until the ene- my was in such a state of nerves that the approach of body of Czecho-Slo- walks, no matter how small, was like ly to throw him into panic.
 Assisted by Cossacks and by Czechs from Chiliabinsk, Colonel Kadlets then commander of the Czech forces west of 1rkutsk, fought his way west to Omsk, taking towns en route. He inn proved the time during the armistice to clean up the line westward to the Urale.
 Meantime, with resumption of hos tilities to the eastward the Czech Slovak forces between krasnoyarsk and Irkutsk found themselves hard pressed and near to the end of their resources. Kadlets doubled back east ward and by series of flanking movements; falling upon the Bolshe- wiki in the night. stampeded them time after time. In this way he push ed through to te relief of is country men at Krasnoyarsk and Irkutsk.
 From Irkutsk to the southermost point of Lake Baikal there are forty one tunnels. It was the Czechs' aim to clear out the Bolsheviki without giv- ing them time to blow up these tun- nels and to that end they started a small contingent overland to surprise the Bolsheviki beyond the seires of tunnels. These men marched four days under greatest difficulties. They became so pressed for food supplies that they had to eat their horses. But they accomplished their object. They attacked the Bolsheviki in the middle of the night, capturing theit machine guns and started them nortiaward in disorder. The Bolsheviki succeeded in blowing up one tunnel, the last one in the series.
 The Czechs and their Russian al- lies now had a clear track to the southern extremeity of the lake to a village named Slujinka. where the blocked tunnel presented a serious obstacle to further progress. They dragged a few light guns over the ridge and marched several contingents of troops around the obstruction only to find the Bolsheviki massed in force some twenty miles beyond. The Czechs and Russians suffered heavy losses in the fighting here and were forced back to within few miles of the tunnel
 l. Meantime the Czechs had cleared the tunnel sufficiently to pass troops through, on foot. General Gaida, who had succeeded Colonel Kadlets in com mand, caused decoy messages to fall into the enemy's hands, begging for help and declaring that the tunnel was hopelessly blocked and he in desper- ate straits, surrounded and at the end of his resources. The Bolsheviki there upon moved southward in high spir- it's, throwing aside all cautnoi. Bands played and their progress was in the nature of triumphal march.
 A few miles from the tunnel they ran into an ambush which completely demoralized them. Machine guns raked them from the hillsides and field guns shelled them front and rear. A tattered remnant of the Bol- 1 sheviki army fled northward with the | few trains they, were able to save. Tokia. Sent. 3f. The Japanese gov ernment had decided to arrange treat