The Washington times., 1923-05-07
BY WILLIAM HARD.

instructor TO the kentucky National
Guard. wired to this service as
follows:
'UntIIinkabIe," Says Morrow.
Proposed entry of Semenov's
men to this country on American
army transport unbelievable and
untnlnkable. Every American sol
der, knowing Semenov and his
| numerous career and remembering
his comrades dead in the SHOWS Of
Siberia, killed by Semenov, will
resent the coming of these men =
Cody Marsh, national adjutant of
the Siberian Veterans, an organiza-
ton OF which ex-President woodrow
wilson is honorary commander-in.
ment:
1T is only a little while ago that
we We're obliged to endure the insult
OF the presence of Semenov in the
United States and now we are
asked to welcome whole boatload
or Semenov's ruffians
Semenov was our arch-enenv in
siberia He was directly reSponsi.
bic for flogging and for numbering
American soldiers in Siberia. Now
his associates who have ignomini-
L
sion to the United States.
Allied With Japs. i
These are the people who Knocked
| us at every turn and connived with
| the Japanese In their bitter anti
American propaganda. Wherever
the Americans were stationed these
folks were there to mock us and
deride us and work against us.
They were supported by the
japanese. Why not let the Japa.
nese give them asylum?
If 1t is a question OF mag
nanlnlity. why not let the Kaiser
lin? Why not let Emma Goldman
| in? NA
1T is not question with us of
politics, but of giving the welcome
of our shores to men who did
everything in their power to make
| life miserable for us and to cast
dishonor on our flag.
siberian veterans are called
upon everywhere to register their
solemn protest"
The facts behind all this out.
burst seem to be that Semenov's
soldiers in Siberia were hostile to
| the American troops, but that
American Governmental non-com-
blatant officials, out OF political af-
filiations with the anti-Soviet forces,
are now backing the entrance of
these anti-Soviet Semenov refugees
into American territory.
There was released for full pub.
llication today, a letter from 8.
Merkulov, former head of the
Vladivostok White government and
protector OF the Semenov soldiers
who subsequently field to the Philip
pines and who are now scheduled
to be brought to this country under
Red Cross and War Department
Auspices.
This letter is addressed by
MerkuIov to a fellow Russian and
reveals the extraordinary extent of
sentiment among
Russians who accepted the support
of our soldiers and then double
crossed them.
A full copy of the letter was fur
nished to this writer by Major Sid
ney c. Graves. In small part it
runs as follows:
America a ScOurge."
Now we are living under Japa-
nese protection. If these benefac-
tors were not present, the Ameri-
BODY alive. 1t would have been a
great deal better if fate had not in
flicted upon us this scourge Of
Americans. One cannot imagine a
worse people. There Is no filthier,
more scoundrelly or more disgusting
people than the Americans. We are
all wondering how Japan is so pa
tient, and does not teach these peo-
pie a lesson. AS warriors they are
beneath any criticism. We are all
sure that if the japanese would
get after them they would finish
them in a few months.
The whole thing sums up into this:
Our soldiers fought on the side of
the Whites. The Whites, and espe-
ciallv the Semenov Whites, turned
against our. soldiers and hindered and
resisted and politically undermined
| them, and also in certain instances
physically assaulted and maltreated
| a nd killed them, with the result that
our soldiers were really fighting the
Reds and the Whites both.
Sees Shallow PSetensc.
Now a deta chment of the most
anti-American Whites is about to he
passed into the United States under
pretense. as Major Graves eX-
presses it. of being pro-American be,
cause anti.Soviet.
! Major Graves has been decorated
! by the War Department twice-once
| for gallantry in France and once for
gallantry in Siberia.
Governor Morrow of Kentucky
wired to Washington today as fol-
lows:
American citizens and American
troops who served in Siberia will
resent coming of Semenov's men
J to this country. If these men are
! followers of Semenov they should
never be transported on American
transport. They would disgrace
| and defile it. His hatred of America
land his killing of American SOL
diers and his atrocities are so
we'll known that his followers could
not be acceptable citizens of this
country"
| Copyright 1923. by Washington Press
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