The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-09-12
were STORMY DAYS
IN \ vLAD|V0sTOk
'czecho- slovak Forces Quickly
Compelled Surrender Of Boil
shevist Red Guards.

"aladivostok. July 2.(by mail -
Three thousand bolshevist Red Guards
'entrenched themselves in the fortress
here and defended themselves with
furious fighting when the Czecho- sslo-
walks took over the command of the
city on June 90. The Red Guards
Were aided by so Magyars and Ger
mar prisoners of war ssssss
Che Czecho -Slovaks had surren-
.dered the fortress and placed machine
guns on the roof OF the British con-
;sulate and on the roof of the railway
station near by. They called upon
the boishevists in the fortress to sur
render but the Red Guards shot down
-sne.r messengers. Immediately the
machine guns opened fire and for two
hours stream of bullets rained on
the fortress. So fast and furious was
the firing that the men in the fortress
We're unable to return the fire from
ITS windows. Suddenly there was
tremendous explosion "A Czech lla-
"crawied near the fortress under tie
fire barrage and thrown mine into
the building. white flag appeared
at one of the windows, a 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- Slovaks
lost four men. with Is wounded, while
of their opponents 149 had been killed
and wounded. Thus. in the course of
rev hours, the all powerful soviet
mad been overthrown and its
delegates arrested, its military staff
soverpowered by force Of arms, and its
army of Red Guards had either sur
rendered or thrown away their arms
and disappeared without fighting.
When the local bolshevists had de-
cided to disarm them on June 80, the
'Czecho- Sloval1s forced all this action
by presenting an ultimatum to the
soviet demanding the disarmament Of
the red guards on the ground that
transport of the Czecho- Soviet forces
from Russia
When the soviets refused to comply
with the ultimatum orders We're given
to arrest these delegates and all of
the prominent bolshevists. War flags
were hosted on foreign warships in
the harbor -Four soviet torpedo
boats attempted to put to- sea but
were stopped and surrendered to Off
GERS of the Japanese cruiser "Asahi"
and British cruiser Suffolk"
The British and 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
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- Slovalss are the
military masters of the town. The
British, Americana French.s Japanese
and Chinese consulates are guarded
by their own national forces, respec.
lively, except that the French consul
ate / uradbdeg etaoin shrdlu utlp
ate is guarded by the Japanese i
small party of American marines
landed from the Brooklyn on the even.
ing Of June 20 SSt