Evening star., 1922-04-09
''L|ES,' y SEMEN0FF
SAYS OF CHARGES
General Bombarded for
Hours by Lawyers, Report
i ers and interpreters.
MEEK. NOT BL0ODTHIRSTY
Cossack Leader Willing to Be De-
ported-If It Is to
France.

By the Associated Press
NEW YORK, April s.-Gen. Gregorie
Semenoff. ataman of Cossacks. today
seemed to find legal warfare in the
canyons of lower Broadway as ex-
on the steppes of Siberia
Flanked by his American lawyer
and a band of Russian supporters, he
was whisked up in an elevator to the
twenty-second floor of the Equitable
building. and there. for the second
day, was bombarded with questions
at bankruptcy hearing which fol-
with a judgment for si7s,57s alleged
to have been returned against him by
Harbin. courts. The plaintiff in the
action was the Youroveta Home and
Foreign Trading Company. which as
serted that the sum represented sup
plies alleged to have been stolen by
the general at Chita.
The general has been painted by his
enemies as man of fierce nature,
who waded through the blood of his
victims. but he seemed just a little
abashed up there in a New York sky
.
battling away at him in language he
did not understand
Indeed, he was far from an intimi-
dating figure as he looked inQuiringly
from one questioner to another, but
every now and then he exploded with
an expression that interpreters said
meant liar" after a question had
been put to him in the Russian. 1t
was doubtful whether the general
himself CLEANED the full significance
tor Borah in Washington and Col.
Charles H. Morrow in Frankfort, KY,
to the effect that he had proved HIM
self in Siberia Il "butcherer of Ameri-
cans" and the greatest monster of
modern times.
him ar~the close of the hearing. with
dispatches from Washington stating
that Mr.. Borah was seeking his de-
portation. they were met by some
general was tired out after three
hours questioning. that he didn't
speak English anyway. and that they
had better see his attorney, George
W. Glaze
"Skys" and "Vitches.''
Whereupon there was loosed upon
the general by his retinue d volley of
Russian bristling with "skys' and
witches" and the general was thrust
into. an elevator without the report
ers knowing whether he knew what
their errand had been.
When Mr.. Glaze was shown the
Washington dispatch he exclaimed:
Deportation, that's what the
general wants. He doesn't want to
stay. in this country, anyway"
When newspaper men tried to ex-
plain thatit general were deport-
ed. n might not +se to France in the
cabin that he,7had, reserved for his
wifeltand. himself aboard the Aqui-
tania Tuesday Mr.. Glaze asserted
that the whole matter was ridiculous
anyway. -
The charges now hurled at the gen.
eral all had been brought up at
Vancouver, he said. when the Cossack
leader landed. At that time, he said.
representatives of the American Le-
gion were there and after the gem
eral had set forth that he was fight
ing the bolsheviki with allied help.
the American State Department had
vised his passport.
At the examination. conducted in
the Office of David W.. Kahn, counsel
for the New York concern that
caused his arrest. the general admit
ted that, while he might have signed
requisitions for supplies furnished by
civilians, he was unable to recall the
circumstances He also claimed that,
under the Russian law. he could not
be held responsible if he did attach
his signature to such documents be-
cause of the large number presented
to him by his subordinates, upon
whom rested the responsibility for
their issuance.