Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-04-08
.sEMENOFF TRIES
TO VACATE BAIL
Russian General Wishes to
Proceed TO Conference
: at Genoa.
u. S. LAW HOLDS HIM
Detained on Attachment for
Debt, Anti-Bolshcvist Lead
- cr Remains Here.
u. S. LAW HOLDS HIM
ny Wcstbrook Pcrlcr,

United News STAFF Correspondent
:, NEW YORK, April 7.-Gencral
Gregory Semenon hopes the New
York Supreme Court will be good
enough to vaca;e his $4,000 bail
bond and permit him to sail for Eng
land aboard the Aqui,ania next
Tuesday as his wife wants to see
her doctor in Paris. and lie believes
-se can turn a stroke OF business a,
,r'c Genoa economic conference.
The generals business. according
TO a'ndavits by Brieadicr-General
Graves. |. :, y. late comnandant
OF tho American cxpcditionary
forces IN Siberia. is brigandaEc. ma
rauding and assassination.
Su, SemenoTs idea in the confer
cnt6s he hopes TO arrange with
European statesmen will bc To oh
tain financial support for another
counier-reyoluiion In Russia. Revo-
luton and hrieandase may be SINH
lar in many respects. but the one
works for purest altruism. the othar
for sord!d gain. and General Sem
cnof. whose mild blue eyes and in
conspicuous civilian appearance be-
II" his reputation. fights only FOR
humanity. He said SO himself.
Explains shootinEs.
SSmenoii lawyer George w
Glaze, EXPLAINED away the assassina-
tion % two American soldiers by an
armored train unit OF Serenor,s
army IN Siberia, 10 which General
Graves referred in an atndav.t which
Is attached % the papers In the
present proceedings araiuz, sem
'noG, Se;uea7@ io.e Glaze all abou;
81
/, Seems ia, Ss-zer7@ had no d.
rect eommg3. e4..ca w.tA the te.ach-
Menis az a.s sca;;e7ed army, and
maintained his genera! command by
maintaining h.r.sel; as fetish IN
me imagination OF his troop,
Therefore. when tina; ar.nored train
hred into box car barracks O. some
American troops. killing Two Amcri-
can soldiers. Se,neaoT himself was
not responsible. in fact. Semenor
claims he executed Ljcu,enan,-Col-
Incl Popo;t. one OF his own officers
10. or permitting this episode 10 mar
'"H!S' relations with the allies. ana
General BcSnolc. the Semenon com
'haAdcr of that district. was given
49, Gays IN the guardhouse ana
:" dismissed from the service e
Hinmcs Bolshcvi>ts.
semenoH and his encourage clulm
mat the present proceedings. which
began with the arrest OF the GEN
.erai by deputy sheriff win q
!, n'cke!ed badge named Murphy. were
inspired 10y the Bolshevis,s Tho
animation is given out that Tho Ma
49," government fears Semenon and
mas gone TO this length to prevent
MS attendance at Genoa when ,hc
statesmen and economic experts NJ
: me o!d World gather 10 do wha.
they will about the admission oc
. S'a 10 the trade fellowship az
The world u
hut the court action. on its face
appears to be nothing more ,b,n
just what II purpor;s to he. wbi,l i.
, noay "ttachm2lt TO compel sem.
I. rio" TO pay a..tUds y emf of si7s57S
"o'"'ned at Harh!n. China. bv mo
. "uFoFeta Home and Foreign Trad-
ing Corporation, OF New York in ro-
spect 10 wool and other pronar,, o<
: mat hrm, which was seized nv COZ
tam troops In Siberia in 1919
Semenon does not cync,,y da
that MS troops seized tho nron.r,y
'"eS were such loosc-knit or
. t""'zation' casually taking their ~
> ms anu such Injuries as the cnur-
~, "t ded Wherever they found