The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-05-21

w =. Graves. leader of all the
Americans IN Russla, said Colonel
| Morrow d.1 not ovcrestimate tho
number.
There was town named Adrian.
ofsEy and near lt Eomcnon had
whot ho called his slaughter yard. d"
ptiHOu,rs were taken there by cpr-
loads, compelled 10 march up 20
greet holes. and then were shot
down ty machine guns.
"rhsy wcrc not bnisheyiFs. they
were Just harmless peasants" C0io-
mel Morrow sad. The district had
been cleared OF bolshoyists long DO.
fore"
Tho CLIMAX of Iii4 Atrocities
Colonel Stgpuuotf was dcWon0ffs
chief oNccutionor. and the climax ~
the atrocities. colonel Morrow said.
cHmu whom Etepauofi according 20
data supplied hy Lieut.. G, T.. Me
Suit Of tho ltusslnn railroad Rorv-
ice, took out nfty-hrce carloads ot
persons. 1900 udIvidunls I'm all. and
shot them down in one day.
q can't s."op nt night unless I've
Nllod someone that day" Stcpnuoft
uro1 to say Tho day following tho
slaughter ~ tho 1000 Semonun ar.
rived at Adrinnofsty ana Stopauoft
reported the event 10 him. There
was Il biz banquet ana celebration
thnt night.
scmcnoff rnldcd tho gelenea val
Icy. and old mon. women ana chill
drop. peaceful peasants. were shot
down by machine guns or locked iu
their houses ana burned. The Mon
guiiau ard CoHsaOk soldiers got
600 sleigh loads Of loot, u small
fraction OF tho total amount Oi
property Scmcnoff ruthlossly tora
from everyone who owned 70.
How did the American soldiers
and Semonuffs troops hlt 10 off to-
gothcr? Very badly They were At
swords points an tho time, and
only tho fact that the Americans
were In tho district under the strict
orders "a guard the Trans siberian
railroad and do nothing clso kept
thom from being AT tho Cossacks'
throats. At that. nctual war hc-
tween tho two forces was avoided
only by a hairs breadth.
Scmcnoff had an armored train
on tho track In the region of Ncrn-
udlusk, ana colonel Morrow told
General Bogomomolctz, tho trains
commander 90 get II away. BOgo.
molctZ refused.
"Gct II away In twcniy-four hours
or wen fight Colonel Morrow
said.
Bogomolotz moved tho train
then. but when II passed an Amer
lean detachment NJ pOsolHknya. n
short time later. the Semenoff men
fired on the soldier. %illlug an Amer
ican officer and n soldier. Tho
Ynuks went after tho train then
with hand Ercnndos and rifles, and
captured it in short order. Bogomo-
mulcts was taken into custody. but
had a. bo returned TO Somonoff |
since no state OF war existed bo- |
iween the two forCes and the Amer |
cans could not keep him n prisoner |
General Graves ana Colonel Nor
'ow made demand after demand on
icmonoff that Bogomomoielz bo
unlshed, but nothing was done.
he moment tho Americans depart.
d from siberia no was released.
There was another occasion when
demanded rifles OF an
American lieutenant and the latter
etused to give them up. Semenoff
ook the man prisoner and held
lim forty hours. Then. when IT
Ioomed aa though every American
n Russia was coming over after
aim. he was released.
Still another cause of this coun-
ry's grievance against him was
provided when his men fired Into
IN American train used as q bar
acks and killed two soldiers. Ana.
or n third incident. according 10
estlmony. five Americans were
aiken on n murder train and put to
lcath.
His American Reception
Months went by things began
getting hot for Semenoff, and at
last he decided Russia was not
healthy place for him. The Japa-
nese withdrew the protection they |
gave him. HIS own troops were mu-
liuying. and no began to see that II
was up to him to get out while the
getting was good. So no got out.
lie tried to enter China and met |
a barred door. They knew him as
Of old. ana had no desire to increase
the acquaintance. lie couldn't go
west because Lenine and TrotZky |
were at Petrograd and he was an |
an antlbolsheyik lie got on a ship |
that 1ouchcd nt Japan ana tho Jap |
ansc told him to stay on board
that he wasn't wanted on tho mi |
kado'a island. That left him Moth |
lUk 10 40 Dul ttll' " NHH ANU - !
can continent, which he did. land |
Ing a couple OF months ago at Van |
Couvcr, B. G.
His problem then was how to get |
into the United states. Members OF |
American Legion posts fought his |
men who had seen |
service IN Russia knowing fun well |
the stripe of man he was. At last |
no got across the border line, how |
ever, aud soon was In New York, |
where he seemed to expect to he
looked up To az n visiting notable
who. even though his actions had
run counter TO American interests
here ana there, nevertheless de-
served considerable adulatiun. be-
cause he was ataman OF the Cos
sacks and had been an antl-bolshe-
Visit leader.
lie hadn't been on broadway a
week before he discovered his sad
mistake. A man waited at his room
at fashionable New York hotel
and served somo strange looking
paper on him. Somenoff didn't know
what II was, nor did he care partic-
ularlY, but companions OF his who
could read English discovered Il was
a copy OF a suit filed by the bank
runt louroVoth Home and Foreign
Trade corporation for recovery on
n Judgment for 030.000 rublos for
goods stolen by Semenoff or his
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