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Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-09-03

toned to asphalt roads. Most Of the fight
ing that has been done in Europe and Asia
since the armistice would have amazed
Gen! Pershing, for the armies were gen.
orally mobs, there was no staff work at all,
commanders in chief did not know at criti-
cal moments where their tanks had gone
to, artillery advanced without any covering
infantry whatever, and every possible sort
OF mistake was committed-sometimes with
the happiest results the enemy being in an
even worse muddle.
Battles became affairs Of psychology
rather than of strategy. Swift advances
by small bodies of badly armed troops
scared the life out Of large bodies of bet
ter armed troops and led to the loss OF
thousands of square miles Of territory
But 1t never led to any such loss OF life
as took place during the battles of the
great war Not more than thousand peo-
pie fell during the two great battles for
Omsk in the autumn Of 1919, and the Polish
loss on the occasion of their great battle
for Warsaw was ludicrous.
All this is preliminary to short de-
scription Of Ataman Semenoff, who, &C
cording to telegram received here yes
terday from Berlin, has been appointed by
the Japanese as head OF the new Rus
sian" Government in Vladivostok. II this
news is confirmed 1t means that Gen.
Boldyrev, who is an honorable man, has
refused to let himself be used any longer
as a figurehead by the japanese military
leaders. But it will certainly arouse sus-
picion in England and America as to this
Vladivostok Governments claim to de-
scribe itself as Russian. l would like, for
instance, to have the opinion Of Gen.
i. Graves Of the United States Army on Semen
off, also that of Col. Slaughter, likewise OF
the United States Army, on the same sub
feet. Both these officers have been in ST.
I IBERIA and know Semenoff well. There are
a number of American consuls to whom l
could also appeal with confidence on this
subject only-that I am afraid that the rules
of the consular service would prevent them
from speaking for publication. There are
also many American and British business
men IN Siberia who have very decided
views about Semenoff, but I am not sure
that, with all the cables to Vladivostok in
the hands of the Japanese, any one of them
would like to speak out.
II the Washington Government were ia
publish a blue book giving all the des
patches sent to the State Department and
to the War Office about Semenoff from the
middle of 1918 to the present time, 1t would
be one of the most, sensational volumes
ever issued by any government press. Fol
these dispatches would prove that Semen
off Is in the pay of the Japanese Govern
ment and that he Is as bad brigand as
California ever saw in the forties Of the
last century. The publication of such
book would make impossible Semenoff's re
tention OF government in the Far East
The Japanese would have to find som'
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-09-03
-ossack Leader Pictured as
Grovelling Before the Mikado

Moreover, the colossal mining and forest
concessions, which the Japanese are de-
manding and which nobody can prevent
them from taking, will give the Mikado a
strangle-hold on the Far Eastern republic.
Worst of all, Japan is working through
Russian agents, whom she has bought body
and soul. One of these Is Gen. Semenoff,
who is only figurehead in the hands of
Capt. Kuroki, the clever son OF Field Mar
shall Kuroki, the conqueror at the battle
OF the Yalu. Semenoff Is very ignorant
Young Cossack and almost savage, but his
proclamations are written for him and his
military plans drawn UP by Kuroki, who
speaks Russian well and is always at his
elbow. Semenoff is occasionally sent by his
master to Toxic In order to grovel before
the Mikado, who, though now, as Is we'll
known, sunk into lethargic and half
witted condition, is generally pleased at
seeing white man grovelling before him
in a posture Of abject abasement.
Another big Russian figure in the Far
East is Gen. Khorvot, large, easy, affable
man, with a long gray beard, who Is at the
head Of the Chinese Eastern Railway and
who made his headquarters in Hardin,
which, being leased by Russia from China
was until the other day neither Chinese
Russian and consequently formed an adj
mirable No Mans Land for adventurous
politicians and financiers.
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Especial Correspondence.)

Especial Correspondence)
COPYRIGHT, 1921, BY THE NEW YORK HERALD.
REvAL, June 15
rAPAN'S proceedings in Siberia VIII
rather help Bolshevism in that coun'
try than otherwise, and may end IN
q war between Japan and America. The
Japanese Government has now demanded
from the Far Eastern republic the opening
of three important points, Khabarovsk,
Blagovyeshchensk, and Chita--the latter
being the seat of government. 1t also de-
mands for its nationals concessions in
mines, woods and steamship communities
ton ON the Amur, and insists that It's sub
jects be compensated for all the loss they
sustained in the civil war In Siberia. This
simply means, of course that the military
party in Japan is in the saddle and Is de-
termined to keep Siberia in state OF dis
order for its own purposes.
The Soviet Government has addressed
note to the French. English and Italian
Governments complaining Of the support
which the Japanese are giving to White
Guard leaders like Semenoff and Ungern'
Sternberg. The Soviet Government blames
England for permitting this seizure OF
vladivostok. which is. 1t says, breach OF
the Anglo-Russian trade agreement, and 1t
says It reserves to itself the right to take
the measures rendered necessary by this
change of policy on the part of Great
Britain" ...,.,
The Japanese made all arrangements for
the capture OF Vladivostok from the Boil
sheyiks. They arrested the Red leaders,
prevented the Red troops from concentrate
ing and allowed the insurgents to seize the
railway station and the arsenal. Vladi'
vostok now Is practically japanese port.
AT the same time the Japanese are busy
In Mongolia, where they are raising a
large Monaghan force for service in ST.
IBERIA. Here, however, they are not hitting
It off 30 we'll with the local White guerillas,
Ungern-Sternberg and Ataman Annenkov,
young Cossack Of rs, extremely ferocious'
drunken and dissipated. Annenkov, whose
record as butcher and gunman would
earn him the respectful admiration OF the
worst old time bad man" OF Texas, re-
Gently attacked the new Monaghan army,
but then. fearing arrest by the Japanese,
he took refuge at the headquarters of the
Chinese expeditionary force in Mongolia
Afterward he proceeded to Pekin in order
to elaborate, with the assistance Of the
War Ministry there plans for campaign
against Ungern-Sternberg, who on his side
proclaimed general mobilization with
out, however, getting single recruit.
On venturing northward again into Mon
golia Annenkov was arrested by the Japa
nese and his band dispersed. In Pekin
there is NOW sitting conference OF the
Monaghan princes" who are drawing up
with the assistance Of the Chinese Gov
ernment, plan of campaign for driving
UngernS ternberg out Of Mongolia
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JaDan's Course Tends
to Benefit Bolshevism
By CAPTAIN FRANCIS MCULLAGH.

In other words the white race, as repre-
scented by various Russian Cossack chiefs,
who are really bandits and adventures,
occupies about the lowest rung on the lad
der in Mongolia and eastern Siberia. The
Japanese and Chinese are using them
against the other. Dressed in skins and
rags and seldom sober, for the Japs keep
them we'll supplied with irewater, their
wild followers are rapidly degenerating to
the condition of savages, and the well
dressed well equipped Japanese leaders
regard them with contempt.
That the japanese will keep them In that
condition as long as possible may be re-
will be that most of the Russian peasants
will be driven to side with the Bolsheviks,
and that the whole of eastern Siberia will
fall into Japanese hands. The Japanese
will make the most of the present dis
turbed state of Europe, with Germany
crushed, France nearly bankrupt and Eng
land handicapped by conditions in Ireland.
Egypt and India.
The Japs are behaving, however, with
great diplomatic skill and 1t will be diff
cult for any western Power to take excep-
ton to their proceedings. They can always
blame the Chita Republic for neglecting to
fulfil its engagements, especially with re-
gard to the naturalization Of japanese
subjects whose losses are fixed SO high
that the impecunious Russians can never
pay 1t.
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thorites to have 1t entirely to themselves.
But after the train had started a Japanese
Major who spoke English insisted, despite
all protests on forcing his way into it and
taking the best seat. There was naturally
a row, in the course of which the Major
drew a revolver, but was knocked down
and kept prisoner till the end of the
journey.
/ introduce this question of the Japa-
nese because 1t Is intimately bound up
with the question of Semenoff, who Is only
a tool in the hands Of the Japanese. II
he rules in Vladivostok the Japanese will
be masters of the port, and American busi-
ness will be firmly but politely frozen out.
To continue, however. my account OF
Semenoff In 1919 he had most violent
row with Kolchak, who denounced him for
holding UP ammunition and whom he In
turn defied, greatly to the delight Of the
Japanese, to whom Kolchak was not suf-
ficiently subservient. In July, 1919, the
Japanese sent military mission to Omsk
in order to treat with the supreme Ruler"
who refused to have anything to do with
them, however, when 1t was explained to
him that before any help was sent he must
write a most servile letter to the Mikado,
throwing himself metaphorically at that
monarch's feet and imploring his assist
ance.
Later on in the year great pressure was
brought to bear on Japan by England and
France, with the result that Semenoff and
Kolchak became nominally friends The
former was given the rank Of General-he
had previously given himself the rank Of
Ataman-and invited to come to the Ural
front with his Cossacks. He accepted the
rank and still retains it, but he never
moved from Chita, and, when Kolchak fell
he was unable or unwilling to assist him.
He did, indeed, come as far as Irkutsk in
his armored train, but, being extremely bad
as a military leader, he had to retreat
again and soon had to fee to Japan.
His short period Of rule in Irkutsk
showed him to be not only bad soldier
but an inefficient administrator. When
the villagers complained he. sent among
them punitive expeditions, which robbed
and burned like the Germans In Belgium.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-09-03
Gen. KappeH, Deceased, Was a
Man of Superior Sor'

Gen. Kappell. also said by the kilograms
to have been concerned in the VladlvostoK
revolution. was Of a different type A
business man by profession and an Estho-
MAN by nationality he was till 1914 the rep
resentative of German. firm In Samara.
At the beginning of the great war ne en-
tered the army as an ensign, put at lhe
end of the war he was a Colonel OF art1l'
lery. When the Czecho-Slovaks took Sa-
mara, Kappell, who was living there at the
time. collected 500 men round him ana
helped them to capture Simbirsk and
Kazan. as we'll as 165,000,000 gold rubles
which the Reds were carrying about In
railway trucks
In November, 1918, he was in Ufa, having
now attained the rank of General, and In
1919 he was again at Ufa forming new
division. / saw him near Ufa in May,
1919, and thought him one of the best
of the Russian Generals-businesslik un-
wearied, careful Of his men.
When the Red wave swept over the Urals
in June 1919, he was swept before 1t. but
during the terrible winter retreat from
omsk which followed he showed great
bravery and resource. When Kolchak was
captured near Irkutsk Kappell seeing that
nothing could be done but to save as many
of his sadly diminished force as possible,
crossed Lake Baikal on the Ice taking
forty-eight hours to do 1t and getting MS
feet frozen. His soldiers succeeded IN
carrying him to Czecho-slovak Red Cross
train on the other side OF the lake, but
several days afterward the unfortunate
General died. His name is mentioned as
that of one of the leaders that recently
took vladivostok, but the mistake is prob
ably due to the fact that his troops, though
they had dwindled to small band, still
retain the name of their beloved leader.
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When workmen complained he had them
stripped, tied up and scourged. He muir
dered, robbed, burned and misgoverned Ike
mediaval German Baron. The British
officers who were attached to his court
sent the strongest protests on this SUBJECT
to their superiors, and the American OIL
GERS did the same, but there was no I'M
provement and most of the foreign officers
left. This is the man whom the Japanese
have had in their pay for the last three
years and whom they mean to run as their
candidate for the Presidency Of the Far
Eastern Republic. In my opinion Len1ne
is much more respectable person.
Semenoff is married, but having annexed
a woman in cafe of Kharbin, the worst
sink OF iniquity in the Far East, he has
made her share his throne"
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Vadok Revolution Otter
He Long Has Been Paid Tool Of the
Mkado Stands All That's the Lite Bandit
Murderer Other Russian Fgreheads Rate Little Above the Young
CossackW S Of General kuokl
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-09-03

Semeno Cossack long repud to bee
of the Mkado and regarded hguehead tor the
Japanese in the Far Republic of Siberia
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other igurehead, and perhaps they would
leave the maritime province altogether.
Semenoff, who Is of mixed Russian and
Mongol blood, served with the Verkhneu'
dinsk Cossacks-most of them Buriats-
and rose to the rank of Captain during the
great war. Neither his education nor his
military talent permitted Of his rising
higher, and he would not have risen 80
high had 1t not been for the war, which
accounted for very rapid promotion OF
regulars in all the belligerent countries.
He saw a little service on the European
front and then returned to the Far East,
where he fell under the influence OF old
Gen. Khorvat, the head Of the Chinese
Eastern Railway and strong reactlonary.
With financial help from Khorvat he
formed in northern Manchuria curious
military outfit comprising Russian boys of
16 and IT, Cinnamon, Coreans, Mongols
and Japanese. This was 1918. This varie-
gated gang could do nothing against the
Bolsheviks, though the latter were very
weak at this time, until the Japanese came
along with their regular troops and cleared
a way for Semenoff as far as Chita. There
Semenoff reigned, under the protection Of
japanese bayonets, till the fall of Kolchak.
Without Japanese assistance he could not
have held on for day, for though he had
some Russian officers and good many
Cossacks attached to him the entire civil
population was against him. He Is in the
same position now at Vladivostok.
Semenof Regularly Subsidized
BY the Japanese Government
The Japanese paid him then. as they pay
him now, for the upkeep Of his troops and
they give him besides a regular subsidy In
money in return for which he has got to do
exactly what they order him to do, exactly
as II he were an officer in the Japanese
army In the middle Of 1918 he was sub
sidized by the British Government and
when they dropped him he hired himself
out to the Japs, whose paid servant he still
is. Under these circumstances 1t is ridicu-
lous to say that the Government" which
he controls at Vladivostok Is Russian
Government: 1t Is as much under the Mi
kado's thumb as the Government Of For
mosa. and Americans will stand a poor
cnance OF getting any CouCesSiouS out VI ~
II those concessions conflict with Japanese
interests.
Semenoff, when at Chita, did not depend
entirely on the Japanese, however, to bal.
ance his budget. He had other ways Of
making money. Holding as he did the
frontier town of Manchuria, strongly gar.
risoned by Japanese troops, he insisted on
collecting the customs there. though he had
no right TO do SO. This proved gold mine
to him, for he could extort as much as he
liked not only from merchants coming In
hut also from merchants going out, particu
larly from Chinese merchants whose Gov
eminent is so paralyzed by fear Of the Jap
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- CAPTAIN FRANCIS WcULLAcH
rSDccial Correspond 'noso
(Copyri0ht, 1921

(COpBflQHt, l'-~
RAvAL, June ~
ur NON, masters of the Siberian
Pacific coast are undoubtedly the
l. 1aranese hut the Mikados military
leaders who organized the Niaoi'
revolution" are keeping well IN the Oa~
ground, so that I can say nothing
+,o,, ran saw a good deal, however
about the Russians who are acuhs as ''o'
Of the Japanese, for spent over Se''
Eastern Siberia as a military otlieef III Wv
cronlov Of the British Government Co1se-
ouentlv nv knowledge of Generals sem"
mfr Poldvrev & Co. is greater, thinN'
than that Of any nespaper correspondent
who was In Siberia at the same time
Roldyrev is an honest man and a sincere
republican, who in 1918 was IN the o''
Government and afterward in the Omsk
covarnment but some OF Kolchak's sup
norters thinking him too liberal, elected
him bv a quite unjustiied coup fetdt
which was quite as criminal as the Boisne-
vik coup d'etdt a year earlier IN MOSCOW
He Is apparently having nothing to do
however with the new Vladvostok Gov
ernment for he must see very clearly that
1t Is dominated by the Japanese.
To describe semenoff properly I must
make a long DEPRESSION, else the readers OF
this article would think that was telling
fairy stories for the career OF this young
mamie is only 26-is as marvellous, though
not as pleasant, as fairy tale
The latest news about him to hand while
I write is a telegram from the Far East
saying that he has made his appearance Off
vladivostok in a Japanese ship, with
large staff and a very large quantity of am
muntion. The consuls are opposing his
landing, and as he is not in the good books
either Of the English or the Americans It
Is possible that his employers, the Japanese,
will send him back to Port Arthur, But It
Is fairly certain that he will turn up later
and play a dominant part in the buffer
state which the Japs have founded on the
shores of the Pacific. so that l make no
apology for saying a good deal about him.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-08-12
PAGE THREE

but l thought, as they sent for
me-"
Babe Littleford's fingers held tightly
to his. 1T was me that sent fo' you."
She turned her face the other way.
Il was so lonesome, Bill Daleg
Robert McLaurin's wife, Patricia.
visited Babe twice daily, and friend
ship that was none the less warm for
being unique sprang up quickly be-
tween them. Patricia declared to her
husband that she vas going to keep
Babe-whom she was already calling
by her proper name, the same beino
Elizabeth-and educate her. There
was room in the bungalow, Patricia
said; and she really needed company.
because Bobby was away so much.
Babe accepted little Mrs. McLaurin's
offer as soon as Bill Dale convinced
her that she wouldn't be merely an OBJ
ject Of charity. The hill pride's first
law is that one must pay for what
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sYNoPsIa

CHAPTER 1-Young Carlyle wilburton
Dale. or bill Dale" as he elects to be
KNOWN son Of a wealthy coal operator,
John K. Dale, arrives at the Halfway
switch, in eastern Tennessee. abandon
ing q life Of idle ease--snd incidentally a
bride, Patricia Clavering, at the altar
determined to make his own way in life;
mounta;Sssr noe nSsss Ba0e v t5lsfSrd sd typical
ter Of the hills, takes him to John More
lands home. Moreland La chief of his
clan" which has an old feud with the
Littlefords. He tells Dale of the killing
OF his brother, David Moreland. years
man named Carlyle. Moreland's descrtp-
ton Of Carlyle" causes Dale to believe
the man was his fathss.
CHAPTER II-Dale arranges to make
his home with the Moreland family, for
whom he entertains deep respect
CHAPTER II.-Talking with Babe"
Mttleford next day. Dale 10 ordered by
Black Adam" Ball. bully Of the district,
to leave his girl' alone. Dale replies
sspiritedly, and they fight. Dale whips
ranges with John Moreland to develop
Davlds coal deposits. Ben Littleford
senos q challenge to John Moreland to
meet him with his followers next day, In
CHAPTER IV.-During the night all
the guns belonging to the Littlefords and
the Morelands mysteriously disappear.
CHAPTER V.-Dale arranges to go to
Cincinnati to secure money for the min
Ing of the coal. The two clans find their
weapons, which the women had hidden,
and line UP for battle. Babe" in an
effort to stop the fighting, crosses to the
Moreland side Of the river, and is acci-
dentaily shot by her father and seriously
wounded
CHAPTER Vito get proper surgical
aid, John Moreland Ben Littleford and
Dale convey Babe" unconscious, to the
city. Doctors assure them she is not
seriously hurt Dale meets an old friend,
Bobby McLaurin, who had married
Patricia Clavering. Telling his father of
mans actions convince his son of his
fathers guilt in the killing of Moreland.
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CHAPTER Viii.
Major Bradley and Henderson coff.

Major Bradley and Henderson Goff.
When Bill Dale, the expert mining
man Hayes and the two mountaineers
stepped from a short passenger train
at the Halfway switch, they were ap-
preached by the mOonshiner, Heck,
and a man whom Dale had never seen
before. He was tall, and his bearing
was erect and soldierlike, though he
was every day of sixty years old.
His eyes were blue and twinkling with
everlasting good humOr; his gray
mustaches and imperial were exceed
ingly well cared for; his teeth were
his own, and as white as a school
girls, and they bore out his general
air of neatness. He was, plainly, a
Southerner Of the old type.
who's that?" whispered Dale to
John Moreland.
But aMoreland didn't hear. He ran
forward with his right hand out
stretched, and so did Ben Littleford.
Men could not have greeted a brother
with more gladness, Dale thought.
Hi, thar, Major Bradley the hill
man cried. And how dye come on
today?
Il am very well, gentlemen, thank
you," said the major, smiling.
He shook their hands heartily. 1.-THE
ralnmen gave US your message yester-
day." he went on, still smiling. land
we were delighted to learn that the
young woman was out of danger.
trust you are all in good health, gen.
tlemen."
They assured him that they were.
Moreland turned to introduce Bill Dale
and the mining man. From the mo-
ment that Major Bradley gripped
Dale's hand they were friends.
Mighty glad to know you, sir!"
exclaimed the old lawyer. I've been
hearing a great deal about you, sir.
over in the valley of the Doe. They
seem to think there's nobody just like
Bill Dale! 1t was Bill Dale this,
and Bill Dale that; it was Here's
where Bill Dale whipped Black Adam
or, Here's where Bill Dale was stand
ing when such-and-such happened or
Here's where Bill Dale crossed the
fencev"
"Hah-hah-hah !' sluggishly laughed
BY Heck, who stood leaning on the
muzzle of his rifle. Bill Dale is all
right, major; we've shore got my word
fo' that"
Continued Next Week