Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-08-21
Vladivostok Soviet
Quickly Vanqu;;shed
by Czecho-Slouaks

correspondence Associated Press.
Wadivostol, July 2 .-There thousand
belshevik Red Guards entrenched
themselves in the fortress here and
blended themselves with furious fight
: ing when the Czecho-Slovaks took over
the command of the city on June 20.
The Red Guards were aided by fifty
Magyars and German prisoners of war,
The tCzecho -Slovaks had surrounded
the fortress and placed machine guns
on the roof Of the British consulate
and on the roof OF the railway station
near by. They called upon the boil
shevikd in the fortress to surrender but
the Red Guards SHOT down their mes
sengers. Immediately the machine
guns opened fire and for two hours a
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 it's windows. Sud-
denly there was tremendous explos7
ion.,- Czech had crawled near the
fortress under the fire barrage and
thrown q mine into the building. A
white flag appeared at one of. theNwin-
dows, q party Of Czechs rushed to the
main entrance Of the fortress burst
open by Z hand grenade. The boil
sheviki threw down their arms and
surrendered.
In this conflict tire C7echo- lSlovaks
lost four men. with fifteen wounded
while Of their opponents 149 had been
killed and wounded. Thus, in the
course OF few hours the all-powert
,f,il soviet had been overthrow and
its delegates arrested It's military staff
S0vefpowered by force OF arms, and It's
army or Red Guards had either sur
rendered or thrown away their arms
and dispersed without lighting.
8 When the local bolsheviki had de-
cided. to disarm them on June 80, the
CEeche -Slpvairs 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 trans
port OF the Csecho Soviet forces from
Russia.
When the suviets refused to comply
with the t1ft1maturn orders were given
TO arrest these delegates and all of the
prominent bolshevik. War flags were
hoisted on foreign warships in the
sharbof. Four soviet torpedo boats at
tempted to put to sea but were stopped
and surrendered to OFFICERS Of the Jap
anese cruiser Asahi and British cruiser
Sumo1k.
The, British and Japanese cruisers
landed additional forces and aided the
Cxeeho- Slovaks in occupying all inn
portant points including the powder
angaxine. Strong forces Of Japanese
with machine gums, British marines
and observation-disclosures lined the main
streets. All traffic was stopped. The
streets were thronged with people and
all business was suspended. Materials
were landed from a Chinese cruiser to
protect the Chinese consulate and resi-
denM. Arrests OF the bolshevihd were
rapidly made and each was greeted
with the cheers of the people.
Then came the fighting at the
fortress. Now. the Czecho -Slovaks are
the military masters of the town. The
british, American, French, japanese
and Chinese consulates are guarded by
their own national forces, respectively,
except that the French consulate is
guarded by the Japanese. A small
party OF American marines landed
from the Brooklyn on the evening OF
June -.