The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-10-13

Since June q when they re -occu.
TIED the scene Of massacre. they
Systematically stripped Il of every
/ Valuable thing and shipped in 1900
ions OF army supplies
Some 1900 soldiers were In the
tewn when / wcnt there. Maj Cen,
/ rsuno Nas In command. Jap
squadron was In the vicinity. under
+ Vice Admiral Kuwsjinaa-
. ENORMOUS QUANTITIES
i o. ARMY STORES
saw enormous quantities OF army
atcres. filing several large sodowns
Marehousesl and piled is TO Is feet
- over open spares equal TO three
( e1ty hiccks At intervals Jap steam.
ers arrived with more supplies.
Day after day 500 Jap soldiers con-
tinu~d the salvage work. Every ruin
was dug over for metal. Corrugated
trcn--frcn the roofs Of s.oeo burned
buildings carefully Strengthened
&nd wired together. Iron stoves. BY
scores. were set In neat rows. await.
ING shipment Miles OF telephone and
electrie wire were taken down from
poles. rolled mp and carried 20 the
river bank. Insulators were un.
screwed and boxed
Anchors. buoys. chains. machinery
from the electric light plant new iron
oaSs and inxoss--eyery scrap OF metal
On the la square blocks Of desoiate
Etkolayevsk was being recovered.
sorted and sent on steamers dying
a. - Ia
Sent wher~F ] do not know. Why
No Jap would tell was noe per
united to photograph this spoltauon.
but l saw IL. DAY b. day. with my
oWu eyes,
HOMELESS RI SsIA<s
0ENT TO yIADIvOSTOk
The homeless Russians. struggling
Naek by hundreds from the interior.
we're sent In patches to vladivostok.
1.oee miles BY steamer.
The Russian Red Cross steamer
I Erfvnn carried food and meitcAi sup
/ plies 10 relieve the situation. Little
/ parties we're sent along the shore 10
bury the bodies. now coming to the
fnurface in large numbers.
Every effort has been made by
DDapan to capitalize the massacre in
MO ways:
| Ffrst--As an EXCUSE for coutinued
Military occupation cf the maritime
weovtnce--to accomplish which she
had for two years alternately TO
{unenscd disorder and then suppressed
with iron hand. supplied arrns and
honey to reacfionary white lead.
len like scmlnoff. and signed agree
Renss with Red or non.Red provts-
lpnaI governments. only to tear
eham up when IL served her purpose:
gecond--As a pretsxf for lnhuman
treatment OF thousands of Chinese.
which well may pave the way for
fresh cncroachments upon prostrase
China
urssIANs BRwED TO
zTBTIFY AGAINST CHINESE
when the lap rei<fs expedition
1nnded. they Immediately rounded up
md questioned every living person
3ney could not understand how the
eespfsed Chinese civil population OF
NikoIayevsk had escaped massacre
along with the Jap soldiers We're
the Chinese In league with the Reds.
Russian witnesses. who had never
Thought Of such thing. suddenly
sremembered- when handed five or
een yen. Witnesses who had diffi-
Guilty in Remembering" also had dif.
ficury In either leaving or remain
Ing In vladivostok- Some disap-
peared.
One such ~wftness.- with whom ]
talked. admitted without q blush
that he remembered for five yen.
which he needed TO buy some salt TO
cure his fish. Five yen would buy
three pools flos poundsi Of salt. And
the entire valuable supply OF salt Is
n Japanese hands!
Many Russians told me that Mr..
b. 3. Hansoka. special representative
q the Imperial japanese govern
ment at Nikolayevsk. had a large
number OF such statements. My
personal contact with him, and other
observst tons. convince me that he in
Che real head OF japanese affairs In
that section--above general or adj
mirai. He was formerly first score.
ttJ " tflt JhpsfufH@ tfHbasNy ut
Petrogrsd. and claims intimate
:. 0P1endship with former q. s. Ambas-
i. ondor Francis.
49, PEACEFUL
CHINESE CIVILIANS
The 400 Chinese civilians at Mix.
oiayevsk were a peaceful part Of that
mixed population found In all sgber-
tai towns. The Chinese ships had
been unwiiiingIy present at Niko-
lnyevsk since Last fall. frozen In the
Amur.
Originally they were sent from
Shanghai. In July. 1919. under orders
70 proceed up the Amur to Hab-
aYovsk. there take on winter cloth.
ling and supplies. and then proceed
70 Hardin. The little squadron com
prfsed three small river gunboats
and a tug. under Captain Chen.
On October rs. 1919. they were
within 20 miles Of Habarovsk when
stopped by shells. fired under orders
OF the Russian white freactionary)
General Kalmikoff--a mercenary in
Jap pay. Kainikoff refused permits
sion 10 proceed to Harbin, or even to
obtain supplies and winter clothing
from their own stores In Habarovsk.
Captain Chen was forced to turn
back down the Amur. He barely
reached Nikolayevsk before tho river
frcze over. All winter the boats re-
manned there, frozen In. with scant
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