Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-09-12
were STORMY DAYS
IN vLAD|V0STOk
Czecho- Slovak Forces Quickly
Compelled Surrender of Boil
shevist Red Guards.

V~aladivostok. July 2.-(by mall.)--
Three thousand bolshevist 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
man prisoners of war.
The 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 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 Il 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
tremendous explosion. a Czech had
crawled near the fortress under the
fire barrage and thrown a mine nto
the building. n white flag appeared
at n of h windows, u party of
Czechs rushed to the main entrance
OF h fortress burst open by 81 hand
grenade. The bolshevists threw down
their arms and surrendered.
In this conflict the C2echo-S loyass
lost four men. with IS wounded, while
of their opponents 149 haG been killed
and wolnded.. Thus. liz the course of
Il few hours, the. all powerful soviet
had been o~verthrown and it's
delegates arrested, its military staff
overpowered by force Of arms. and Its
army of lied 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 Juna sc. the
Czccllo-S lovaks forced all this action
bE presenting III ultiinatum to the
soviet demanding the disarmament of
the rcd guards on the ground that
ii was necessary to safeguard the
transport of the Czecho-Soviet forces
from Russia.
When the soviets refused to comply
with the ulti:,atum orders were given
TO arrest these delegates and all OF
h prominent bolsllevists. Wa flags
We're hoiSted on foreign warshipS in
the laarbor. -Four soviet torpedo
beats 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
C2echo- Slovaks in occupying all inn
portant points including the power
magazine. Strong forces of Japanese
with machine guns, British marines
and Czecho-Slovaks lined the main
straets. All traffic was stopped. The
streets were thronged with people and
all business was suspended. Materials
We're landed from q Chinese cruiser TO
protect the Chinese consulate and res
idents. Arrests OF the %boishevists
were rapidly made and each was
greeted with the cheers of the people.
Then came the fighting at the fort
ress. Now the Czecho- Slovaks are the
military masters of the town. The
British. American, French, Japanese
and Chinese %consulates are guarded
by their w national forces. respcc-
lively, except that the French consul
ate j S .uradhdeg etaoi shrdlu uup
ate is guarded by the Japanese.
small party of American marines
anded from the Brooklyn on the even,
ing OF June 30.