Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-08-29
EXTINCT RUSSIAN GOVERNMENTS ROW
 OVER. STEAMSHIP

San Francisco, Cal, Aug. 21.-The Rogday, transport of the Russian Volunteer Fleet, which arrived in San Francisco harbor from New York via Manzanillo, for bunkers on Jam uary 24, has become the central fig ure in a new international situation involving two extinct Russian gov ernments, the Kerensky and Kolchak regime, and the United States.
 The history of the Rogday in- cludes services on the Great Lakes, as we'll as duty as freight carrier and transport for the Russian gov ernment in the Russian Volunteer Fleet. She served on the Great Lakes as the Nevada, and was constructed by the Manitowac Shipbuilding and l Drydock Company at Chicago.
 The Rogday is steel screw pro- Ipellor steamer with a net tonnage of 1078 tons, or gross tonnage of 2212 tons. She is electrically light ed, equipped with wireless telegraph and has three decks. Duluth, Minn,, was the home port of the Rogday while under American registry. Her registry was changed to Russian at the time of her sale to Russia.
 Following litigation in federal courts here, the Rogday was ordered handed over to Commander M. Cor deney, representative of the Kolchak government, who was the Rogday's 1 o g Of a yuho Chn i,,+N .4 San Francisco.
 | On the morning of Saturday, July 24, boarding party under the lead ership of Lieutenant Commanded Benklevcky, D. C., went aboard the Rogday, which was moored on China Basin, and seized the transport.
 Captain Mily Gordeney, deposed commander of the Rogday, in state ment following the seizure of the transport, said he was commission ed by the Kolchak government, known as the old Russian govern ment, in October, 1919, and was to proceed from New York via the Panama Canal to San Francisco, thence to Vladivostok. Arr,ving at San Francisco in January, 1920, l was told to discharge my cargo and send it to Seattle. My cargo was worth $2,000,00O and my ship $200,- GOO but l had no control over the cargo, hence ! did as I was ordered to do on advice from the embassy.
 "But in February the embassy , wired me that Admiral Kolchak was dead and that the old Russian gov ernment had fallen, adding that l was to give up my ship. This I re- fused to do, as considered that the ship belonged to the Russian people and not to any party which chanced to be in power.
 Later this year Benklevsky came aboard several times trying to urge , me to leave my ship, but refused
 lie Is an assistant naval attache of
 the Russian embassy at Washington
 "He came aboard Friday, July 23
 the day before the seizure and told , me at that time he was going to
 Del Monte, summer resort nea,
 San Francisco, on a pleasure trip
 lie said that Romansky, the Russian Consul at Sa nFrancisco, was also going out of the city. He did this to throw me off the track, as the next !; morning he came aboard at seven
 o'clock armed"
 United States officers at Mare Is- land, Cal, following the seizure of the Rogday by Benkelvsky and his followers, declared that the status of the transport should be deter mined by the American State De- partment because of the interna- tlonal question concerned, insofar as i. 'Captain Benkelvsky claimed to be a