Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-08-19

| over all Its members
Soon there came the news that the
German and Magyar prisoners of wal
were organizing in Siberia and were
being armed by the bolsheviks under
the pretense that they were going to
light again world imperialism" We
nave proved how that the Germans
were planning to provoke our conflict
with the bolsheviks and to destroy us
piecemeal with the aid of the armed
prisoners of war.
Germans Fool Bolsheviks.
| Under such circumstances we began
our pilgrimage east, was in the first
train there were then eighty trains of
u.s. which was to prepare the way.
We were determined to leave Russia
without a conflict. Notwithstanding
the fact that we kept our word, that
we surrendered all arms with the ex-
ception of the few necessary, our pro-
gress was hindered and unending nego-
tiations had to be repeated in every
seat of lpcal soviet. We We're threat
ened by machine guns, by cannon, but
we patiently stood it all. altho the
bolshevik Red Guard could have been
disbanded by a few Of our volunteers.
After fifty-four days of such tiresome
travel our first train arrived in Vladi-
vostok, where we wre enthusiastically
received by the allied units stationed
There.
When the Germans saw that we,
Notwithstanding all their Intrigue, were
nearing Vladivostok, they exercised a
direct pressure on Lenine and Trotsky;
for the things that were later COM
mitted by the soviets can not any
further be explained away by ignor-
ance. The trains were stopped at diff
ferent stations SO that they finally
were separated by distance of over
fifty miles from one another. Provok-
Ing incidents of all kinds were the
order of the day. The arming Of the
German and Magyar prisoners was be-
gun on a large scale. One of the orders
>lof Tchitcherln, the bolshevik foreign
minister reads: Dispatch all German
and Magyar prisoners out of Siberia,
stop the Czecho-Slovaks." Three mem
bers Of our national council who were
sent to Moscow for an explanation Of
the stopping Of our trains, were ar
rested. At@.hef same time our trains
were attacked in different stations by
the soviet troops, formed mostly of
German and Magyar prisoners.
! Turn on Betrayers.
II will recall the Irkutsk incident.
i Our train-about 400 men. armed with
ten rifles and twenty hand grenades.
was surrounded by a few thousand
Red Guards armed with machine guns
and cannon. Their commander gave
our men ten minutes to surrender their
arms or be shot. According to their
habit, ours began negotiations. Sud
denly there was heard the German
command. "Schiessen,' " and the Red
4 Guards began firing at the train. Our
men jumped off the train and in five
minutes all the machine guns were in
their possession the Russian bolsheviks
disarmed and all the Germans and
Magyars done away with.
THE Siberian government which re-
sides In Irlutsk and which, as it APP
peared later. ordered this attack, can
thank only the Intervention Of the
American and French oonsuls that 1t
was not destroyed by our rightly en-
Filtered volunteers.
ITO what extremes our loyalty was
carried Is shown by the fact that altho
perfidiously attacked. and altho we
disarmed the Red Guard in Irkutsk, we
still began new negotiations. with the
result that we surrendered all our arms
on the condition that all German and
Magyar prisoners would be disarmed
and disbanded, and that we would be
allowed to proceed unmolested. The