The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1918-08-19

fifty miles from one another. Pro.
voking incidents OF all kinds were the
order Of the day. The arming of the
German and Magyar prisoners was
begun on n large scale. 'Dne OF the
orders OF Tchitcherin. the Bolshevik
foreign minister reads: dispatch al
German and Magyar prisoners out of
Siberia. stop the Czecho. Slovnks'
Three members OF our national coun.
ell who were sent to Moscow for an
explanation Of the stopping Of our
trains were arrested. At tho same
titde u trains were attacked in dif-
forent stations by the soviet troops,
formed mostly 10y German and Magyar
prisoners.
C2echs Turn Tables.
II viii recall the lrkutsk incident.
DNr train-about % men. armed
with ten rifles N twenty hand rren.
aides. WIS surrounded hy q few thou
sand red guards armed with machine
guns and cannon Their commander
gave oar men ten minutes 10 surren.
der th"ir arms. or he shot According
TO their habit, ours began negotiations.
suddenly there was heard thc German
command. "Schtesscn.' and the rcd
guards began firing az the train. our
mon jumped off the train. and in five
minutes all the machine guns were In
their possession. the Russian Bolshe-
viks disarmed al the German and
Migyars Zone away with.
THE Siberian government which
resideu IN lPkutsk and which, AZ IL
appeared later. ordered this attack.
can thank only the Intervention Of the
American and French cousuls that \,
was not destroyed by out rightly emf
FILTERED volunteers
ITO what extremes our loyalty was
carried is shown 10y the fact that al
though perfidiousiy attacked, and al
though we disarmod the red guard I'm
irkutsk, we still began new negotia-
tions. with the result that We surren-
dercd an our arms, on the condition
that an German and Magyar prison
ors would be disurmed aud dcshanded,
and that we would be allowed go pro-
ceed uuInolpated. The siberian guV-
eminent guaranteed us unmolcstcd
passage. and. taught ty bitter cXpe-
ricnce that II was dangerous To attack
even uuarmed CzechO- siovake, let as
proceed TO Vladlvostok. True. this
fNNNNfN AhfNA WHY AAAF ' NNAANN ~ AAf 81 ~
ity Of lrkutsk the trains west 81 lr-
Kutsk wcre-undor tho orders OF Mos
row attacked in tho some manner
but always with the same result.
everywhere the Bolsheviks were dis
armed.
Are Proclaimcu Nurdcreis.
THE arrest OF thu members Of our
national council took place immsdi-
utcly before these treachcrous Attacks.
Then. thousands OF armed Germans
and Magyars in the vicinity OF pmsk.
Krasuoytrsk and Chitu, forced our
army between NolEa and lrkutsk 10
take the Sihcrifr administration into
their hands Coward the end Of juno.
But even 40 this stage We were trying
70 enter into negotiations with Mos
COW. hut Moscow. g. e.. Lcninc and
Trot1ky. proclaimed us murderers and
began mobilization against US. Under
these circumstance our troops were
forced "a take possession ~ the
bridges over the NolEa.
cd" must mention tho fact that our
defense which. as said. was ucccssitat-
ed by -treacherous attacks and every
where resulted In the disarmament ~
the B~olsheviks. was ioyfuliy greeted
by the majority OF the Russian popu-
lntion. Anti-B olshevists took advau-
tagc ~ the situation 10 overthrow
the soviets. We did not interfere with
their internal affairs even after the
opcn conflict. We only disarmed
those who attacked us. to make ropc.
titiOn ~ attacks impossible.
The Germans were trying 10 spread
.....,.. tE.t .nys tf,TtufaHru tat.RHtffnl
brutuIities during these battles. That
i- not true. The facts are this RUS
sian Bolshcyists. tlken hy our troops.
wore disarmod and sent home. hut IN"
Al1gvnrs aud German prisoners. taken
with arms in hand. wcr" killed That
was made known 10 hen beforehand.
Thr Austrians hanged al our wound
od mon whom they captured on Ia"
italian front. and they attacked one
OF our trains nI wounded in siberia.
Four Years Of % struggle fer life hay"
taught us to be ON guard. We cid
no harm 10 German or Magyar prison
ers who did not oppose us. although
they were our enemies, w could have
iknlcd thousand ana thousands ~
them. but we allowed them to leave
Sihcrin in peace. II they desired to 20
home when, however. they trench-
,ruusly attacked "a. they were OF nee
cssitv made harmless. W. made an
official announcement that every Ger
man and Magyar caught by as with
arms 10 hand would be given no quar-
ter. ON the contrary. we could cite
many instances Of unprccehtcd brutal
tiles committed ON our wounded 10y
tho German. and egupciallg. Magyar