The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-09-12
were STORMY DAYS
IN %VLADIVOSTOK
aCzecho- Slovak Forces Quickly
Compelled Surrender of Boil
shevist Red Guards.

Valadlvostok, July 2.-(by mai1.)-
Three thousand b~olshevist Red Guards
-entrenched themselves in the fortress
here and defended themselves with
furious fighting when the Czecho- Slo-
walks took over the command Of the
city on June 20. The Red Guards
were aided by so Magyars and Ger
mar prisoners of war.
The Czecho- Slovaks had surren-
-dered the fortress and placed machine
on the roo of the British con-
,sulate n IN the roo Of the railway
station near by. They called upon
the bolshevists in the fortress to sur
render but the Red Guards shot down
their messengers. Immediately the
machine guns opened fire and for two
hours n stream Of bullets rained on
the fortress. So fast and furious was
the firing that the men in the fortress
were unable to return the fire from
its windows. Suddenly there was a
tremendous explosion. A Czech ha-
'crawled near the fortress under the
fire barrage and thrown a mine into
the building. A white flag appeared
at one of the windows, n party OF
Czechs rushed to the main entrance
of the fortress burst open by a hand
grenade. The bolshevists threw down
their arms and surrendered.
In this conflict the Czecho-S lovaks
lost four men. with Is wounded, while
of their opponents 149 had been killed
and wounded. Thus. in the course of
a few hours, the all powerful soviet
a been overthrow and it's
delegates arrested, it's military staff
overpowercd by force Of arms, and it's
army If Red Guards had either sur
rendered or thrown away their arms
n disappeared without fighting.
When the local bolshevists had de-
cided to disarm them on June 80, the
CZecho-Slovaks forced all this action
by presenting an ultimatum to the
soviet demanding the disarmament OF
the red guards on the ground that
it was necessary to safeguard the
transport of the Czecho-S Soviet forces
from Russia.
When the soviets refused to comply
with the ultimatum orders were given
to arrest these delegates and all of
the prominent ~bolshevists. War flags
were hoisted on foreign warships in
the harbor. Four soviet torpedo
boats attempted to put to sea but
were stopped n surrendered to Off
GERS of the Japanese cruiser "Asahi"
and British cruiser Suffolk"
The British n Japanese cruisers
landed additional forces and aided the
Czecho-Slovaks in occupying all i'm
portant points including the power
magazine. Strong forces of Japanese
with machine guns, British marines
and Czecho- Slovaks lined the main
streets. All traffic was stopped. The
streets were thronged with people and
all business was suspended. Materials
were landed from q Chinese cruiser to
protect the Chinese consulate and res
idents. Arrests of the bolshevists
were rapidly made and each was
greeted with the cheers of the people.
Then came the fighting at the fort
ress. Now the Czecho-S lovaks are the
military masters of the town. The
British, American, French, Japanese
and Chinese consulates are guarded
by their own national forces, respec-
lively. except that the French consul
ate | s uradbdeg etaoin shrdlu uup
ate Is guarded by the Japanese. A
small party of American marines
Landed from the Brooklyn on the even.
ing Of June 20. b