New Britain herald., 1919-11-22
3O YEAR OLD REbEL.
 TAKEN BY kOLCHAK
Leader Of Insurgents Captured
 When His Troops Fail Him

Nladivostok, Nov. IS, (By the As sociatod Press )-Rudolph Goida, 30 wear old Czech general. until this morning the most dramatic fighter during the five years the Czecho-Slo- walks have been in Russia. tonight Was the most tragic. Gaida. who < rose from private to general and Who twice freed Siberia from orGanIZel Bolshevism at daylight Woufa"o"'
 wet and disheveled, lmped along the streets of Nladivostok, a prisoner CT soldiers of the Omsk governments
 Tonight, the anniversary ol the coup detat by which Kolchak placed himself in power through promising ~a constitutional assembly and imme- diate representative government for Siberia, the plot to overthrow Admir- al Kolchak was completely crushed here.
 Gaida was captured at the railroad station when the revolutionists sur rendered after suffering from the cross fire of a field piece placed at tne corner of the station plaza. This fired at d 100 ward range into the revoutionists. Russian torpedo boats were in the harbor.
 Wounded in the leg by a grenade Gaida was marched through the streets under heavy guard to the headquarters of the all- Russian staff. A few hours later he was turned into the custody of Czecho-Slovaks to be deported within three days. |,
 Nladivostok is quiet. There has been no firing since early this morn ing, with the exception of the VOL leys Of the execution squad Martial law has been declared.
 The revolution and winter arrived simultaneously. A rain storm VcSter- day turned into a blizzard today and tonight the bodies of the dead trvo- lutionist still lying in tle station plaza. were snow covered mounds. unmo- Vested except when robbed of boots and clothing by some prowler.
 A. hundred bodies are scattered throuS.r the railroad yards it jhis vicinity. Eighteen dead revolution- ists are lying on the station steps where they were shot this morning.
 Officials of the l1-Russian govern ment are holding 100 prisoners in, cluding many railroad workers.
 The government losses in the fighting are unknown. their dead having been removed. Occasional wounded soldiers and civilians con tinue to arrive at the American Red Cross emergency hospital. Aid has been sent from this to the Russian hospital This is the nearest that any American came % being a casualty during the i $ hours fighting, with the exception of one sailor a mem Der of the international patrol who had rifle and d revolver knocked from his hands. ............-.e ...ss..~. .y.s -.a..-.; !;
 The whereabouts Of the mcmbcts Of the provisional cabinet of tue movement headed by Gaida Is nn- known. Many escaped, and the re- mainder are. in hiding '.#&
 The entire movement ccntcr2d on Gaida. His military success was cs- Genital. The revolution was doomed when government officials moved the artillery, first placed on the SVetlahd- nkaNa bridge. nearer the railroad station and began bombardmenf. Gaitla followers, unprepared for heavy Sighting, Were caught #h trap5 and surrounded.
 Gaida is a Czech citizen, holding, Mith permission of the Prague goNern- mcnt. the rank of lieutenant general in the Russian army. He commanded thc left front of Kolchak's Ural army. When his recommendations regarding dem ocratic reforms in the army were unapproved he left his command and arrived at Nladivostok in July.
 Gaida is famous throughout siberia as the youthful leader who led 4000 I'zechs 4,000 miles against all the Bol- sheviki in Siberia early in the fall of 1918. cleared the trans-Siberian rail- wav of "red' forces and opened the way to VladvoStok. When the allied expeditionary forces landed here he was rewarded with the rank of gen eral in the Czech army.
 Fighting under Kolchak in the bit ter cold of last January, he led the l-raI army to the capture of Perm be- fond the UraIs. This is the most westerly point ever attained by the Ko1chak forces fighting against the