The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-21
Russians Desperately Try To
Save MunitiOn Machinery.
Transport Plants Employing
10000 Workers to Siberia.
SEND WAR PRISONERS ALONG
Austrians and Germans Prefer
Jobs to Rejoining Army.
Ukraine and Austria in Quarrel
Over Division of Territory.
CBy the Associated Press.)

Moscow, Tuesday, March 19.-All
available rolling stock is being used
for the removal from Petrograd of all
valuable property along the lines of
the Transsiberian and Ural railroads.
The Putiloff munition works and the
Shlusselburg powder factory, both
employing from thirty to forty thou
sand men, are being removed to Omsk
and to Bolsk.
Among the factory workers are thou
sands of German and Austrian prison
to Tomsk and other Siberian cities to
do industrial work Many of the
prisoners told the Associated Press
that they had little interest in the war
Some of the Austrians sought medl-
cines from the American Red Cross
for sick comrades and did not know
the United States was in the war.
Vologda, where the American en-
bassy is at present, has suddenly de-
veloped from a provincial city of sixty
thousand to congested transfer point
with great floating population
In Row Over Spoils.
BY JOSEPH SHAPLEN.
Petrograd, March 20 (night) .-Seri-
Gus differences have broken out be-
tween Austria and the Ukrainlan rada
regarding the division of territory ac-
cording to authoritative d1spatches
W
tria has demanded a portion OF the
province of Violin.
Germans in Russia Repuised.
The Caucasian seim governing
hody) is reported to have broken off
peace negotiations with Turkey
German forces have been repulsed
near Voroshb. On the kharkoH front
(4O0 miles northeast OF ODESSA ana
$50 miles south of Moscow strong at
tacks have been made by the Ukrain-
ian soviet troops.
A Russian telegraph agency~-dis-
patch from. Vladivostok describes a
m Getting in Peking March 16, said to
have been attended by M. Putiloff, M.
Guchkoff (war minister under ker-
ensky), Admiral kolchak and Chinese
and japanese generals.
Discuss Allied Occupation.
The Japanese representatives are
said to have declared the entire Boil
sheyik portion of Russia is demand
ing allied occupation of Siberia, as
far west as Irkutsk, promising to sup
ply the necessary forces.
The Japanese stated, according to
the dispatch, that America would re-
ceive Ussurisk region railway; China,
the East Chinese railway, and Japan,
the Amur region as far as Irkutsk.
A special Russian government for the
occupied region was discussed. NJ
Chorvatt, director of the East Chinese
railway, was offered the premiership
Members of the old duma are re-
ported to have arrived at Hardin to
discuss the situation
Trotzky Dislikes United States
Petrograd, March 20 (night).-For-
eign Minister Tchicherin declared to-
day that the soviet commissaries have
considered the possibilit.- that the
United States will oppose japanese
ventures in the Far East. He said
he believed negotiations to that end
/ between the United States and Russia
were possible.
! War Minister TrotZky directly op-
posed Tchicherin's statement, declar-
ing Russia could not obligate herself
to Capitalist America
viets would not seek formal alliance
with the United States, but they hoped
the United States would desire to live
in friendship and cooperation with
Russia, as a means of protecting its
own interests against japanese en-.
croachments.
1T is impossible even to discuss E
Russo American alliance" Trotzky
said, when informed of Tchicherin'.
declaration. Socialist Russia car
never place itself under obligation tt
capitalist America. 1t is possible
however, that America will seek clos
er relations with Russia, owing to tht
japanese situation"