New-York tribune., 1920-01-27
Plague Drives
Soviet Leaders
Out of Moscow
Government Reported to
Have Been Moved to
City of Tver, on Upper
Nolga, TO Escape Disease
Col. Blunt Illinois Man
W. o. Lowe, Of This City,
Also in Red Cross Par
ty Seized in Siberia

~ CeIZcU III SIBERIA
STOCKHOLM, Jan. 26-Members of
the Soviet government have left Mos
COW following renewed outbreak of
the plague and have gone to the City
of Tver, on the upper Volga, according
to advices received here.
VLAD1VOSTOK, Jan. 90 By The AS
sociated Press "A list of American
Red Cross workers captured by the
Bolsheviki at Kiuchinskaya station was
received here to-day 1t is as follows:
DR.. W. H. Kingston, Oklahoma Dr. J
| N. Medili, Jarosa, Col, and Pharmacists
W. 0. Lowe, 262 West Seventy seventh
Street, New York City, and E. II. Char
ettc, Stockton, Calf.
News of the capture of the Red Cross
men and Of seven American railway
engineers was received in consular ad-
vices reaching here today. These did
not give the date oe the capture nor
dld they make it clear whether the
Americans had been captured bv sup
portcrs of local uprising against Ad
mural kolchak or by Bolsheviki ad-
vanclng from Omsk.
Party of Twenty Escape
Ine advlces made no mention Of any
women Red Cross workers, however.
American Consul Ray Hansen and
twenty others, Red Cross workers and
American members of the railway staff.
arc declared to have escaped and to
have reached Irkutsk. The railway
mon. who included Colonel Blunt. were
members OF the Stevens Commission
sent from America to aid in rchabili-
tating the trans Siberian Railway.
Prior to to-day's advices no word had
been received of Americans near Kiuch-
lnskaya, which is a station on the trans
Siberian line near Taishct, for nearly q
month.
The American consular officials and
Red Cross officials here are taking steps
to ascertain exactly what forces made
the captures and to open negototjons for
the Americans release.
All American women and many Red
Gross workers arc to be evacuated
from Siberia on the first available
transport, 1t is announced by Red
Cross headquarters here.
Three trains are bringing Rcd Cross
workers from outlying points on their
way here, the first due tomorrow.
The second has reached Harbin and
the third Is at Chita. Included in the
300 persons aboard the trains are 100
women.
Volunteers to Remain on Duty
volunteers arc being recruited
among the male Red Cross personnel
here to remain at Vladivostok and
supervise distribution among civilian
refugees of about S3,O0O,OOO worth of
supplies. They also arc to care for
about 900 children sent here from
Petrograd. These children were for
warded from European Russia by com
mites, by their parents, or by peas
ants cooperative societies on account
of scarcity of food The Americans
have cared for them ever since they
arrived, many months ago.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.--No report
regarding the capture by the Bolshe-
vik forces of group of American
railway engineers and party of Amer
lean Red Cross workers at Kiuchins-
kaya, Siberia, reported in press dis
patches from Chita, Siberia, has been
received to-day by the State or War
department or at national headnuar-
ters of the Red Cross.
Colonel Blunt Identified
The Colonel Blunt referred to in
press dispatches as having been cap
tured was believed at the War Depart
ment to be Frank Roscoe Blunt, of
Plano, ILL.,, member of the Stevens
railway commission
AT the time he Joined the Stevens
commission Mr.. Blunt, who held a com
MISSION as major in the Engineer
Reserve Corps, was general manager
of the Chilean National Railways. Pre-
vlously he had been general supcrin
tendent of the Chicago & Great West
ern road
At Red Cross headquarters records
showed that the Captain Charette re-
terred to as captured probably was
Edward Hercules Charctte. a phar-
of Stockton, Calif who went
over with an early detachment
"Dr. Kingston" Is DR.. Ford
MuSKOGEE, Okla. Jan. 26.-The |
American Red Cross workers captured |
by the Bolseviki, reported in advices
from Vladivostok as DIR. ". II. Kings |
ton. of Oklahoma" is undoubtedly DR.. |
II. Ford, OF Kingston, Oklahoma, DR.. |
Claude Thompson, secretary of the |
Oklahoma State Medical Society, said
tonight Iii. Ford was, according to
the latest reports received by the |
society, member of a Red Cross ex- /
pedtion in Russia
Advices from Chita, East Siberia.
under date of January 10, reported,
among other American prisoners taken
Dy 'he b,03ishevikl, the capture of "Mss |
Ford The cablegram, which came b,
an intricate route. was garbled and un
doubtedly this name was intended for
that OF DR.. Il. Ford, mentioned in the
Muskogee Dispatch as there is no CON
OF any woman being in the
party.
LONDON. Jan. 26-An official state.
hent issued by the Soviet government
ut Moscow says that the Bolshevik
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