New-York tribune., 1921-05-30
Semenof May Take
VIa6IiuOst0k Command
Cossack Leader Is Reported on
Way From Port arthur TO
Direct Angi-RoLSherik Arnnv

TOXIC, May % (By The Associated
Press). .- Conditions at Vladivostok.
which was seized Thursday by troops
formerly under the command of the
late General Kappell an anti Bolshevik
force, are stir in an unsettled state,
according to advices from American
sources received here. There was half
hours fighting between the opposing
f&ctlons Friday morning, but at noon
the Japanese disarmed the belligerents
and quartered them in the police bar
racks. The total casualties up to Fri
day were given as twenty.
According to Japanese newspaper
dispatches, some of the members of
the former government have taken
refuge on an American cruiser The
leader, M. Antanoff, however, and the
representative in Vladivostok of the
Chita government fed to the Japanese
headquarters. A part of the city is
still under control of armed troops of
the Far Eastern republic NJ. Merku-
doff, the head of the new government,
announced that he would demand that
the Japanese disarm these troops, in
accordance with the Russo-Japanese
agreement, and that if the Japanese did
not comply the new government would
resort to fighting.
A Japanese army proclamation an
nounced that the Imprisonment of no.
litical offenders would not be- per
mitted.
Semenoff May Take Command
1t is reported that General Semenoff,
the Cossack anti Bolshevik leader, who
has not been in the field for some time
past, intends to proceed to Vladivos-
tok from Port Arthur to direct the new
movement.
The Yladivostok rising is character
lied by the Jill Shimpo as a purely
reactionary movement, resulting from
the expected Japanese evacuation of
Siberia, and it doubts the permanency
OF the new regime,
Fridays fighting is alluded to in
Japanese army communique issued yes
terday, which says:
of the militia at Vladivostok by the
Japanese army, considerable uneasiness
has existed there since yesterday. The
Japanese suggested that the various
autonomous bodies organize a special
militia corps and cooperate in main
tanning order.
yesterday morning shots were ex
changed between the old militia and
the Kappell troops, the former opening
an offensive in the eastern section Of
the city in. violation of the permit
given them by the japanese authoriz-
lrg them to enter Vladivostok if thew
did not attack the Kappell forces. The
hostllltles were soon stopped by Japa-
nese troops"
Compromise Rule Proposed
A dispatch to the Asahi from Vladi-
vostok announces that the Japanese
command has invited the leaders of
the various contending governments,
and also a representative of the Chita
government, to confer with the object
OF organizing new compromise demo
cratic government instead of an anti
ooclahst regime. The result of the
suggestion has not been announced.
The Kappell leaders, it is added, are
dissatisfied with the attitude of the
Japanese.
According to advices from tie Japa-
nese gendarmerie in Viadivostok, an
other version of the Developments de-
clares the Japanese dissolved the new
reactlonary government and that the
leaders of this government, although
they will support the new militia sug.
Gested, will not take any part in a
movement to organize another govern
ment.
James F. Abbott, commercial at
tache, and Major w. ]. Davis, military
attache of the American Embassy in
loko, who are in Siberia on a visit
TO the headquarSsrs of the Chita gov
ernment, were not in Vladivostok dur
ing the disturbances. 1t had been re-
Lorted they were on their way back
from Chlta, but the latest advices state
they are still in that city, where they
arrived MAY 20.