Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-11-21
RUSSIAN REBELS AT VLADV0ST0K
 SUFFER DEFEAT
American Barracks Fired il Battle Which Results in
 Generals Capture.

Vladivostok, Nov. 20.--Revolution- ary forces, which for the last two days have attempted to obtain con- trol of this city, were completely de- feated by government troops today in battle which was commenced be- fore dawn. General Gaida, the revolutionary leader, was wounded and captured and his followers were driven from every point of vantage by government troops.
 Shortly after midnight the govern ment troops moved two three-inch field guns into position at the Svet- landskaia bridge, by which the main thoroughfare of the city crosses the Siberian railroad. The bridge is on- ly 500 yards north of the station, the strongest position of the rebels. A little later, troops reinforced by 100 cadets from the naval training school, the city, while armored cars began arriving at the bridge.
 Before the battle opened, interna- tional policemen and three American soldiers gained entrance to the rail- way station from which they took two Russian women who had been marooned there since the fighting started. At 1 o'clock there was a burst of machine gun fire against rebels holding the railway yards and gunboats started to drop shells on the station.
 Some of the shells set fire to the barracks of the American replace ment battalion. While government officials expressed the belief there would be little resistance by the reb. els, the latter seemed to be in control of the railroad yards, although ex- posed to artillery fire from the high ground about the city.
 Fire was opened at o'clock on the station from field guns stationed at the Svetlandskaia bridge, which had clear field of fire. Later the fighting became general with the revolutionists falling back every where and finally being driven from the station.
 Americans Hit.
 Monday morning at 1 o'clock the social revolutionary Zemstvo group proclaimed new democratic gov ernment.
 Allied troops patrolled the city with American troops protecting American organizations. The U. S. cruisers New Orleans and Brooklyn, under command of Vice Admiral Rogers, are lying in the harbor. The allied military council went into ses- sion just as the fighting started near the railway station, all of them, including the Czechs, being neutral.
 Hoisted on top of General Gai- da's train, near the station, was green and white flag, the colors of the Siberian assembly, which was dissolved by Admiral Kolchak. On the banner was inscribed the words, For a constituent assembly,"
 After the proclamation of the rev. yesterday morning, in which they announced their opposi- ton to Kolchak, a semblance of ministry was formed on General Gaida's train, Ivan Alexandrovitch Yakushiff being named president.
 General Gaida, Czech, who com manded the Ural army of the Omsk government until his recent resigna- ton, was named commander in chief of the new governments military forces.
 T. w. Rowland of Hermosa Beach, Cal, a sailmakers mate on the New was hit by a bullet and is not expected to live.
 Communication by railway with has been suspended. It is reported that similar uprising 1as occurred at Chita, in the trans Raikal region.