The evening world., 1919-07-11
DOLSHEWSTSKILL
. MANY AMERICANS
SURPRISE RAID
Nineteen Slain in First Assault
Fifty Miles From
Vladivostok.

hodANoYkA, Siberia, Weoneg-
day. July 3 (AssOciated Press,,- ,,---It
vas at this little vlllags. 1iny miles
northeast Of wadlvos.ok that At
dawn on June rs force Of 800 Boil
shevild attacked an American camp
in which were "a men OF Company A,
Sist Infantry. killing 10 Of the Amer
leans and wouhding "a others. two q
whom Died Of their wounds.
rs Washington despatch on
June 90 carried the ofIiclai report
OF this ongagement1
The men OF Co. A were guarding
the railway from viadivosto4x. oc-
cupying a row OF tents pitched near
the railroad Tho Bolshevilxi crept up
and hid In a dense underbrush. fence
corners and woodplles near the camp.
At O'clock they fired q yolley which
killed many OF the sleeping Ameri-
cans, othcrn, VINO had been wounded
by tho first discharge. staggered out
side and were shot down as they
LEFT the tents,
OF those who escaped the FIRST vol
ley unscathed some pulled on only
light garment or two, clapped on
their steel helmets and organised a
centre OF resistance in a log cabin.
firing thence at puffs Of smoke from
tho bushes. rhen for three hours the
Americans fought as In an Indian
battle OF the frontier days, relief I'm
ally coming to them when seventeen
men came on n train after an Amerlx
can volunteer had run from the be-
sIeged cabin 70 Novonezhlno, the
nearest American camp, fite miles
distant.
The Bolshevll<l, thinking large re-
Inducements were arriving, then
withdrew toward the hills, dragging
their wounded and some Of their dead
with thom, but leaving behind eight
OF their number who had not bean
killed.
The Romanovka attack was the
first Of a series that had evidently
been planned by the Bolsheviki to be
carried out along the Suchan Rail-
way On the following day a Boil
shevik force attacked NovoneEhlno,
the next station on the road, using
the sauae methods as those employed
on the 18th, firing on the tents at
dawn. This time the Americans were
ready. They wero not sleeping in
their tents but In log huts. from
which they poured a hot thanking
fire and inflicted severe losses on
the attacking party. Again, on the
9th. 200 Bolshevikl attacked an
American supply train near sltSa.
Two Americans were wounded, but
on the other hand rs BolshevflNi were
killed, one American marksman with
an automatic rifle killing II Of the
attackers. ..
Intermittent sniping and minor
attacks. with destruction here and
there Of railway bridges and tele-
sraph lines, has continued between
shkotova and suchan for a week,
communication with the AmerIca a
forces having been cut, except for
service by native couriers.
The Associated Press correspondent
making a trip from vladivostok to the
Kansaus River. where the last Amari-
can detachment In the direction Of
Suchan Is stationed. slept two niShtI
with the soldiers in their huts anC
marched from NovOneEhino to tn,
Kangaus River with the troops. rhl,
close touch with the American sold.
iers revealed the bitterness amons
them against the BolshevilIi, virtual,
the only subject Of conversation beinJ
their desire TO avenge the deaths o
their companions who had been killed
During these three days not a singh
conversation about going home wa
heard among the men, although thh
until recently had been the mall
topic. Tho Americans are closely co
operating with the Kolchak forces Il
the Suchan District, where the smal
numbers OF the anti-I3olahevik sorce
make the work OF protecting the rail
way lines adequately an Impossible
, one.
|. The Russian civilians In this dis
trict appear TO be just about as great
= ly disllked by the Americans as tn
r lighting BolshevilSi, because IL
: known that many villagers who IA
been believed TO be friendly took par
, | In tho RornanoVka ATTACK