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&&&: ' Tnmlon, July 16
& SlThe 'Dallv Malls Harbin correspond--
Fg 'K doscrlbing uencral uorv,aui? s-n-
KB 4 ernment. savs i Is a thorough! rep-'
esentaflve Siberian Government. In
cluded In It are the most prominent
figures In the commeictal Industrial and
agricultural life of tho Siberia i conti
nejit.f If premises to be acceptable to
iiifn"e-tenth3 of the ..Siberian populitlon.
"the correspondent savs He adds
'''General Honath, who Is temporarllv
.premier, made his imputation in the
'JRusso-Japancse war as organizer of
troop transport across the Siberian
Railway. He was left-hind man of Alex
leff when the latter was Viceroy of tho
Far Cast. At present lie .s head of the
Chinese Uastern Railway and general! i
' recognized the most representative Uii- I
i sSn jn Manchuria ,
JtJVostrotln wasoiiombcr for Knle In
-the third and Tourth Dumas He is fi- I
moUs for bis .relation with ome of
Hansen's expeditions
VTasklng. vlio also wis In the third
ftfUl, fourth Dumas, ts a cadet, with
ffreat Influence anions the Trans-Balkan
Cossacks. He was a member of the
sort-llved Semenoff Goermnent -when
hefad the humorous experience of sce-Irjr-
his only other colleaguo except he
rrtenoff arrested for starting committees
among the Cossacks
H'Tstrugoff formerl Ice minister
of
communications In the Kercnsk CIov-
piment, accomplished from the rallwaj
o. mission through ameria Putiloft 1 1
UVt .. .0 I. li..o1 nm n tlllbolln (1ni.
F." "WP "V icil-iiiuu ..-- .. .......
ff. In tho old regime he was dlrec-
tor of the Rusio-Aslatic Bank, and gen-
erally renuted to influence the finances
K.V, if 1i riiHeea l.n.fPHl Tt.allwn. Oil
ES Who'so board he sits
Two SorlnliM In (lorernment
V'General KlUg was formerly mllltarj
jcovernoc of Vladivostok, one of the
dtfenders of Port Arthur, and latterlv
associated with Kornlloff and Alexleff
In their various counter-reolutlonar
movements,
K-Okorokoff and Kurskl are the onlv
Bpeiallfcts In the Government They rep-
rwent'two extensive co-operative move-
ffejnfentsjn -western Siberia .
far uffi "Provisionally a member of the new-1
"&. Government, Admiral Coltchal.. who for-
2$, ,mrly .commanded the Black Sea fleet, '
H5S1 l now commandant of the Harbin Rus- '
?is& Man ferces The new Government has
Kfeitila In Its favor: That It represents
alt nolltlral elements, cadets. Liberals
9.i..kd Socialists. Only such a coalition
Kjf-Ooernment could hope to succeed
Bv.ltu Silt n.nli, unrtlaHetli, it .mmiin, la
KmS 'liw at Nlkolsk. negotiating with the
frjSJtiCiiecho-Slovaks by proclaiming Itself.
jiV flbme opposition Is expected, but it Is
Kir. not of a character to carry much
at ,ght-"
?if l? vn,..ii. inn vtl rcnn.f
Aln a later message, dated July 3, the
- " eorresDondent sav s
Jif'The absolute ne.essitv that exists
fer Allied Intervention In Siberia is
r clearly demonstrated try the opera bouffe
,T.n m 4 l n, t A .... A.. . n nrtttlm HlnllH.
Kvi ing to represent the unfortunate Siheri-
KB ans The newer or tnese two uovern-
5S ' ments is Horvaths. wnicn is now at
IIkolsk. It includes men of action and
solid representatives of Siberian inter
ests and, therefore, in my opinion, is
much more llkelv to make good in SI-
,berla and to receive Allied approval than imAUe it difficult to hold the Rhelnis h.a
tbe older Government, which has trans- nenti wnIch. hv the was has no moie
1 ferred Its parliament from a railway military value than an other salient,
tmr In Harbin to Vladivostok laml a Ereat 'advance on the i m in the
. i "jrorxune. wnicn nas an amuinB way
tk shaping events, m contrived that
tiji InttAr finvernment of autonomous
W Siberia.-should he on the scene when
4hA f.litt rjjiirftrf VlnrilvnRtnk anil.'.
1M Atklnff advantage of this piece of good
(fABtf '"-" "" ""sccucu ... fc..u.wj, t...,l.
L&r seople to recognize them The result
i-.iiiaklne readv to nroclalm Itself, the rival
f' eraranlzation already asserts that It has
been accepted by the people who rait-
. ,- TViU Vlnft nf lhlncr Is llkelv In rn
i', t - "v . ."""." :c" ...r
liSL "iOn to aooms aay unless ine Allies
fir- atn In and choose between several as-
f"-w. emblles who claim to be truly repre
sentatives of he hapless population.
Whichever government finally gains tho
tipper' hand leaves the Important Issue
j Unaffected This Issue Is, that no gov
ernment In Siberia can hope tq remain
Sf solidly In being unless temporarily at i
INS. "least It Is based on effective Allied
v upport, giving It the necessary power
(o enaure.-
WH- HIGH COMMAND SATISFIED
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;; Situation Reveals No Surprises in
1 Attack, Is French Comment
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; Special Cable to Evening Public Ledger
WSf y.l CopvriDht. 108,
Ilk j; f London. July :
, bu .Vru) York Times Co.
16. Last night it was
Ascertained that the French high com
mand was verv much nleased and hlghlv
. rfatfnfled with the situation on the west
front,
No surnrlses were revealed in the
fx erman method of attack, the enemy re
ylnr jart-hia ojsual plan of heavy bom-
trdment and massed onslaughts witn
iAtorm trooos.
I W It Is learned that recently there has
fefieen "resortment" of Allied armies on
&tl western front, the object being to
J. concentrate the troops of each nation in
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-eneral March's statement that three
merlcan army corps have been constl-
ited In France. Is taken to Indicate that
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iheistage of brigading Americans with
;fhe. French and British has now been
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ry Late Information shpws that while
American participation In the fighting
t Chateau-Thierry was episodical, it
i , was, a glorious episode.
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H PLAN PRISONER EXCHANGE
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With Reservation by Germany
eeial Cable to Evening Public Ledger
CororisM. 191S. by Xeu York TimM Co.
Ihe Hague, July 16. Tour corre.
ndent Is authorized to state that an
reement has been signed at tne
ague, wltU a reserxe Dy me uerman
Iwates, to effect an exchange ot com-
tant and civilian prisoners of war
-nerally on the lines recently reached
the French and German uovernmems.
'i proposed that the effects of this
ancs are to apply to British ana
in prisoners oi war ami ciyiukuv
d In Holland and Switzerland.
agreement also deals witn an
tinn nf rondftlona of rjrlsoners
,rbtfcln the British, -empire and
Va,g - -- r
SURPRISE LACKING'
IN NEW ATTACK
Allies Had Anticipated As
sault Last and West ol
nncivns
FRENCH GUNS FIRE FIRST
trniaus May Also Launch
Big Offensive Against Brit
ish Front
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special (..able to l.iciung I nunc i.raerr
Corvriaht 101S, by tv. lorfcr.mrsfo
With the rreiirh Armies, Jtll 16
uawn jtohuo .,,c ...........
German diown Prince attacked fiom
the Marne near Chateau Tliienv to
the hand-slnped plateau of Mi"
slges In pastel n Clinnipacne
is a front of more than Kt
ThN
miles
but up to noon there had been no di
rect inf-ntrv assault upon the salient
of Rhelms, so that the tightlni; fiont
maj prolsionall be counted as llft
miles in lensth
The nttick both cist and west o
Rhelrosi was anticipated both on pin
cral principles .ird fiom sisns such
as the eplosion of unespri ti lars
ammunition duniAs In the 1'rtn h
puns
Indeed at the last the f.erman nti
lery preparation was actual! nntk
nnfH ,,. ,hn nemh batteiies whit I
,. .....uimm
l(Mn to hniass the enenii positions
i little befoie midnight
So fni the seciest blow lus been
delivered on the Marne mldwaj be
tweeu Chateau lhieii and Uoi man
where about Mew and Kosso th
alle broadens to take In a small
tributarj the Dhu3 and hci
therefore, the passage of the Mil ne
would be less dllllcult thin bctwe i
the lulls of its nirrowei coui'-t
Tanks Aid (reriii.ms
lolent righting began hue eul i i
the moinlng i:nst of Hheims between
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ion nl' '"'" . ""- "" n'?l ""':
thi? ueiman m"
by a huge number of tanks
was suppoitid
The news un to the moment is th it
'in this large bector the attack Ins
been generally airebted and iuj&ome
nlaces broken
The battleline as it stood ,esterdi
moinlng, lepiebcnted a great aiitt
of conditions l'ollowing it fiom west
to east wo have, (list, fifteen miles
of beautiful loops of the Mai ne nlle
reached again aftei nearly foui jeais
bj the Germans just more than a
month ago. The passage of sulIi an
obstacle could not but be costly, and
on so small a front riskj . since until
It has been consideiabhe advanced
the pontoon budges, b vvhli.li all com
municatlons iiuibt come ate undei
artillery (Ire Supposing the blidge
heads to be secuied, theie Is a difficult
countiy to fight thiough. with no vital
objective neai. On this side, theie
fore there has been no teason for
alarm
Next, there is the Dormans-Rhehm
sector of lneclad hills. Hie the
Marne must be ciossed, and on that I
condition theie Is the double objective I
of the rich but now evacuated city
ot Kpernay and of the cutting ulf of
the salient of Rhelms
East of Rheims the Picnch ate
strongly posted- on the hills and in
the old trench bvstem which has wit
nessed no first class action since the
French offensive of Septembei. ion
It is a wild, spatteied countryside of
chalk downs, the defenses of vvhirh
have been strengthened of late and
Its defenders know It like the palms
of their hands
Chalons, twenty miles south of the
front at Auberlvc i3 the only Important
town that offers a concrete objective A
great advance in this direction would
perilous maze of massive hills would
affett the French positions in the Ar-
1 ,i. nrmnn hit-n mmmami onipr-
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lter for our sanant allies, for it Is con-
iCentration. not aispersion, ot enoit on
,h -nBrrl. . n.,rt that wh hive in f, ir
It Is only bv concentration on one of
two supreme and limited objectives that
full effect could be given to 'initiative
and mass maneuver
I know It Ifc said tint the boehe will
try here and there and develop the line
on which he has the ejuickest success
The time has gone when that sort of
tentative strength can avail him He
may make one or more pockets." but
they will not give him a decision by Oc
tober, and w Ith the French armies as
they are. In the vry beht fettle u will
not bring him perceptibly nearer to a
victorious decision
I Surprint- ot Repeated
1 The surprise of St Quentin and the
Chemln-des Dames
h.ib not been ic-
peated.
-ine -weainer nus iiul utreu rry 1 1- j
vorable to the enemy and for this re.i-
50" ,'t ?af ee" 'n?uint .,',?t "V ;V"1B
w omu na,e MUlir nwir un.-. jl f,-.-
The south winds that prevailed forbade
the use ot petison gas in us easifsi luim,
lest they blow back upon the assailants
the fumes of their own shells
The attack is believed to have been
already twice postponed At last there
could be no longer delay Wo have it on
the good authority of the Frankfurter
Zeltung that Ludendorff promised the I
party leaders In the Reichstag a decision
In the west before the end of October
Everything points to this being the last
stake of the Hohenzollerns
it was generally thought that the
-c ..i. rnn, .nta feci the first him.
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The question that remained was whether
, " -nually large attack or a greater one.
'would follow against the British army.
.whether. In fact, the grand command
would dare to keep both of Its object-
Ives, which may be summarized in two
words Paris and Abbeville.
SOUTH AMERICAN MAY FLY
London Paper, Renewing SoO.OOO
Prize Offer, Hints Possibility
Special Cable to Evening Public Ledger
ConrtoM, lit, by Xtw York Times Co
London, July 16 The Dally Mall
says It Is rumored that there Is a pos
sibility of a South American airman
attempting to fly across the Atlantic
this year The paper believes a flight
from New Foundland to Ireland or from
New Foundland by way of the Azores
to England Is now just as feasible as
any of tho long-distance flights that have
been accomplished since the war began
In order to stimulate production of
more powerful engines and more suit
able aircraft, the Daily Mall again of
fers Its UO.dOO (50,000) prize for the
flight across the Atlantic from any point
In the United States, Canada or New
Foundland to any point In Great Britain
or Ireland, or vice versa, In seventy-two
continuous hours.
The offer, which was first made on
April 1. 1813, .-was suspended on the,
fluUireltoX.lMJtar. V
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omit lieLe, where the Germans had put up a supply station. Ihe llriti-h got the range of the tros-ro.nl- where
huge v areliou-es and railro.id Irarkf, wilh train-, were localeil, ami liomhdrilcil lliein vvilli surli tlcadlv act unit v
111 it liicy were rompletclv lilottcil out. Shells were fired over dil portions of the town at the rale of 800 per
mump- throughout two davs and a night until everj fool of ground was deva-tdted
FRENCH GUNS READY
WHEJV FOE ATTACKED
Opened Bombardment Fully
an Hour Before Germans
Started
Hv WLTKR DURVNTY
Spmnl Cable to hi cnitip Public Ledger
( ortjrtglit 1l hi V? V or TiirsCe
With the 1 renrli Irnif", Julv 18
After the uual tiemendnus bomb ird
iit" nt th ' rnniis itt.uked it dawn
eeter,dav on two wide set tors between
Chateau-Tliltriv and the eastern Cham
pagne V-s fnic(Ht m mv dispatches a week
co Ihe moist violent efti rt was tll-
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liecterl atnni fhe Marne front from
' hitt m-Thien in west of Rheims No
issault on the i athedral City was at
t mptetl
The latest Information seems to In-
di ate that the eastern portion of the
offensive from tin region ef Fort de la
I unpello to the blood-stained land of
Mc-Kices 111,4 a check This army Is
ininnnnded 1 nm of the most famous
(f Inn h colonial generals .
lhaviti fighting nceti! red to the west-,
w ml t.pt(tall between Fossov and
Pm mm- vvlieitt tho Germ ins rndeav -oitil
to peneti it the plateau, and south
of Hie Marne l. ihe valley of the Sur
niebti iiviilt-r along which runs a light
rillrmd ft ,im Mezy to Montinlra.il
At Hie jiinitinn point (f the Surinflln
and in, vnni. the bills south of the
ilvet in- lf-s than 200 feet high, and
uio dominated bv the COO-foot plateau
on the opposite bank, where a hend ot
thr rlvti give- the enemy a semicircle
of converging the
1 renrh llatterlfs Mere Itradv
It was an obvious gateway for an
offenniVH op ration across the Maine,
with the object of getting command of
higher ground east .and west, shallow,
i ,llmg valleys uid tiec-cl.id slopes Mike
tin lonthills of the Uerkshlres, only
more cultivated as a New Ungland
olHtei described it
li .pitc the remarkable calm lecently
pi evading on tho Marne front, the
I remh were not caught unawares For
some time past the French batteries,
to the strength and number of which
the coi respondent i an beai witness, have
been forming big munitions dumps at
points where no enemy guns registered
For fullv an hour before the German
boinhaidment opened the defenders loos
ened i ti rufic (uuiiter-prearatlon every
gun tiew working madly to beat the
ovon-Mnntdidjer record of firing
enough -hells fnr thlrtv hours at ordi
nary sped in four and one-half hours
between 11pm and dawn
At midnight Sunday I was sitting at a
point some seventy miles south of the
Marne with the Intention of writing an
account of a French Units 14th of July
Everybody's Favorite
A New England Shore
"Hot-Weather" Dinner
We have the reputation of serving the tet
Shore Dinners in town "tastin is believin'O
New England Shore
Dinner, $2.00
Olives Pickle Bftt
Kaaianea
Clam Broth
Btexoed Clama
(drawn butt9r) t.
Ball Lobtter or Bolt
Shelltd Crab
Fried Chicken f8oulftr
Btvle)
Corn on the Coo
French Fried Potatott
Combination Salad
Cantalouve
Pie or tea Cream
rrn Demitattt
H 5-rf
A BOMBARDMENT
rmoa'imtaaaiaffiiSiatiMifa
celebration in which Anieik.ms pir
ticlpaled I had been much btrui k by
the confident demeanor and spontaneous
gayety of the poilus who might at any
moment he lecalled to the tiling line to
meet the greatest bhock in the viol Ids
hlbtoiy. The pioud cry of the Roman
gladiators to Caesar, Moilturl te Silu
t lmus," suggested Itself as a fitting
salute of the soldiers of Trance to theii
country on this eve of battle
.Suddenly I paused Through the open
window, overlooking meadows and wood
lands as peaceful as a scene In the
heart of the United States, oanie a sound
faint, distant, yet Insistent.
"Put-a-put-put-put." and then, louder,
put put ' Its meaning was uiunlstak
ahlei It was the cannonade of the sec
ond and perhaps the greatest bittle of
the Marne The long nerve racking de
My was over The supreme Geiman of
fensive had begun at last
I Thiough the houis that followed the
'thud of the far-nff hammers beat tvei
I more hteidllv Paris he ml it, too anil
, ,
UMIIV
her sleep to list, n In tountlessi
1 homes that ominous echo evoked a pi ly
I er that 'our bov' at leist be spued
And now for the first time rr Idlers
of America are meeting the full weight
' of the 'German onslaught beside soldiers
nf Frame Their anxiety Is our anx
iety , their confidence is our confidence
Whatever happens and the struggle
will be fierce, for Germain Is despei He
we can put full ttust in tho Allied
armies and their leader Thflr courage
will not falter, and in the heaits of the
nations behind them no less unfllnch
ing, nothing else mUteis I ltlnnte vlc
toiy is certain
PARIS UNALARMED BY ATTACK
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I I Rought Lannoiiadiiig Was Air
Barrage; Watch Gun Flaelios
Special Cable to Eiening Public Ledgar
Copyright. IfltS. by 'ew 1 orL Times Co
rarlx, July 16 The beginning of the
fifth German offensive, a calendar month
to a day after the enemy drive on Com
plegne was brought to a standstill on
June 15, was not made known ofllclallv
In Paris until the appearance ot a hrlef
Government communique at 1 o clock
yesterday afternoon The news was re
ceived with satisfaction
That something exceptional was hap
pening was obvious from the sound of
the tremendously heavy bombardment
which had been eaHily audible In every
part of Paris and the suburbs for fifty
miles around since a little before mid
night. The violence of the cannonading
may be gathered from the fact that -a
majority of the people in Paris believed
that the noise came irom ine oarrage
file of the antl aircraft guns, and won
dered why no alarm was glvtn, Even
tually the northeastern hoilznn was no
ticed to be aglow with a pale fiame-col-ofed
light, and hundreds of people climb
ed the slopes of Mont Martre to watch
the flashing of the guns engaged In a
duel which proved today to be over 12S
miles away ,.,..,
The morning papers breathed not a
syllable of the conflict that had begun,
except that one unfortunate critic ven
tured the opinion that the Germans
would not be likely to attack during the
unsettled weather which has prevailed
tor the last three days
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OVER
Twelfth and Arch Sts.
CLAUDE M. MOHR, Mgr,
(fiilronos on Utk Rt.)
I
BY BRITISH GUNS
TIBETANS IN REVOLT;
CHINA SENDS TROOPS
But It's Too Hot lo Fight, Gen
eral Says. Explaining Un
official Armistice
Special Cable to Et eiung Public Ledger
Covjriohi 101$ by Xric 1 ork Timrn Co
IVKln. July K
The ( liinest Government leains tint
Tibetans have tevolted Instructions
have been given lo the Tuchun of
K.ansu .and the ganlfon mmmlssinner ot
Sztehum to disptteh tioops fm the sup
pression nf the rcwdt The unofficial
irmlstice In Ilmnn Is explained bv Gon
er il Vi u Pd Fu as due to the fact that
the summer is ton hot to permit of fight
ing lie declares th it this Is no Inter
ference with the Government's military
plans
The Independent of General Feng
Villi Slang is still denied but the Gov
ernment has given orders that he be
w ati bed
At the request of th( Japanese Gov
ernment, the Chinere Cabinet Ins
opened Kalcan Kwel-Sm Taonan
Hulu-Tao. Tolun and Chl-Fu .Vo as com
mercial ports A loan agreement has
been signed for .10 0,00 fino ven based on
the sfcurltv of the forests and mines in
KIr-In and Hei-I.ung-KI ing China is to
organtre a company for the development
of these resources
The Government has signed another
agreement with the Japanese for the
construction of a ralhvav fiom Tsl-Nan.
In Phan-Tung to Sieun-i:h, In Chih-I.l
where it will join the Pekln and Han
kow Railway. The amount of the loan
Is ?;n00 000 The length of the road is
116 miles and the capital and material
and engineers are to ne supplied by
Japan
It is reported that the Government
has concluded negotiations whereby
snono.000 gold yen are advanced by the
Bank of Chosen for circulation In
Pekln In older to ledeem to Chinese
bank's notes
Further antl-Bolshevlk successes arc
reported In Siberia
IflPONICfl
Gardens
la'puiMifaiwiiiiii'iiiiiiii'i'Mii
Real Roof Garden
weather at latt, and
a real Roof on which
to enjoy it 21
stories above the
street. No hot air
reaches you there
unlets you yourself
make it!
Battile Day will be
celebrated in the
evening.
U'l'll
M'Jllli
HOTEL ADELPHI,
CHESTNUT at 13m. j
irarcny; far, xmywl
mm
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RUSSIA ON VERGE
OF BRIGHTER ERA
Helping Herself Out of
Labyrinth, Czccho-Slo-
vaks Leading Way
SEE HOPE FOR FUTURE
Kindred People, in Struggle
for Freedom, May Be Sav
ing of Slav Brothers
Ih HAROLD WILLIAMS .
Special Cnbln to Eiening Public Ledger
Copttttaht 11, by Vein 1 ork Timts Co.
London, July 16
Russia Is helping herself In finding a
wav out of the labyrinth by verv curious
and wonderful ways of her own
Bolshevism is a mood That mood,
having wrought Intolerable confusion
and disaster, Is now passing, and Rus
sia, more recognizable, more Intelligible
lo the Allies, Is beginning to take shape.
i It Is hs If that amazing eountrv were
determined to demonstrate that the help
which the Miles have been planning to
I give her will not be ghen In vain
Those who have pleaded foi military
aid to Ruhsl t have always argued that,
once a rallying point w,ere given, the ac
tive fotces of the nation would begin
to gather and assert themselves By a
strange fo'tuity, that rallying point has
appeared from within In the shape of
the f'zeiho-fclovak foice The Czecho
slovaks are not Russians, hut a kindred
ix ople The Czechs are the Slav Inhabi
tants nf Iloheml i, and the Slovaks are
men of the Mine stock stie.iklnc vh-
tuallv the hame language, who inhabit
the
mountainous northwestern pirt ot
Hungaiy,
liemi i
Just on the fringe of Bo-
struggle nf n tentlirv
Cm
centurv this people, which In
brighter davs gave to the world aVhn
lluss hns been struggling to free itself
from the grip of the Germans and Hun- j
aailans The great onmitunlty came
n the present wai (Vedi and Slovak
foldhrs of the Austrian aimv surrcndei
ed In thousands to the Russians, not to
sne their lives but to spend them In
fighting in the open on the side of the
Miles against their German and Hun
garian oppiessors and foi the estab
lishment of an Independent Czecho
Slovak St ite in the hem of Europe
The Russian Government fo-med them
Into nn nrmv corps and these 'turdv
lighters distinguished themselves nobly
In the last offensive of the Russian
irmv Thev remained at the front as
long ns there was a front, and when
the Russian armv ceased fighting they
woio withdrawn to Kiev
I'ndei the Bolshevist levolutlon and
the Brest-T.ltovsk peace thev maintained
strict neutrality In Internal itusslan tils
putes and shut theli ears to calls from
either side Their one desire was to
fight the Germans and demonstrate their
right to independence
rars ot Itiisulan Turmoil
Then in Mav thev began to move east
ward In the hope of somehow, some
time, getting out of Russia and taking
their places on the western front They
were weary of the Russian turmoil, and
wanted to fight The Bolshevlkl did a
verv fnnllsh thing Ynev tried to check
their ppdssage eastward and to disarm
them
The Czeiho Slovaks wete compelled
to fight the Bolshevlkl 1 hev struck
hard Sn that the ill disciplined lll-traln-
, ed regiments of the Red armv. which
I h id nrver calculated on strlous fight
ing, fled before them In a mirvellpuslv
short time the'Czecho Slovaks, who weie
qulcklv- re-enforced hv lurking and scat
It red Russian antagonists of the Bol
shevlkl, rescued control of several towns
on the Volga and In the Urals and of
nearly the whole of the Siberian rail
way.
The Bolshevist commander-in-chief, a
plucky adventurer called Muravleff, find
Ing It impossible to suppress the Czecho
slovak movement, thought that the
movement was opportune to turn on his
masters, but his Red armv would not
follow- him, and he shot hlmseir
General Defeetlon ear
Dtitoff, the Ural Cossack leader, and
appatentlv General Alexleff nnd his force
have linked up with the Czeeho-SIovaks,
and the main bodv of the Social Revo
lutlonarlos, with the Committee of the
T!h dance on httmef,
hat or cap, meana
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ment. The latest news Is that the
Crecho-Slovaks have seized the old Tar
tar city of Kazan, the key to the lower
Volga, Success succeeds, and once the
strong spell of the Bolshevik power la
broken, acncral defection may be an
ticipated. While this movement was growing In
the east, while starvation, disease and
unemployment made rapid headway In
the towns, and chaotic, quarrel
some land-grabbing was tho rule of life
In the villages, a remarkable thing hap
pened In Moscow Count Mlrbach, the
German ambassador, was murdered In
Moscow, and the murderers were not so-
called counter-revolutionaries, but men
who until recentlv were the closest allies
of the Bolshevlkl The Jew Blumklp
and the Russian Alexandrovlch, who
killed Count Mlrbach, were Left Social
Revolutionaries, members of that ex
treme faction which split off from the
main Kerenskl-Tchernoff section of the
Social Revolutionaries and Joined heart
and soul In the Bolshevik campaign
For several months after Inst Novem
ber there was no essential difference be
tween them and the Bolshevik! Being
primarily a peasant party they brought
peasant Soviets, by strange manipula
tion, Into the Bolshevik movement Thev
Induced I.enlne, a Marxist, to accept
their agrarian program Several of their
leaders held portfolios In tho Bolshevik
Government. Members of the party were
active In all committees and sovlets, but
they began to part company with the
Bolshevlkl over the Brest-Iatovsk peace
Authors of Trotukv's Formula
Thev were the authors of the famous
formula proclaimed bv Trotsky, ".No
peace and no war," and after the con
clusion of that peace theli commissaries
resigned from the Government and at
tempted to organize what they called a
revolutionary war against all Imperial
ists The break was not Herlous at first, but
has been rteadlly growing Tho Left
"Social Revolutionaries mock at Lenlne's
theory of a peaceful Interval for social
reform Their Ideal Is one of perpetual
and highly romantic levolutlon, and
they like the Allies no better than they
like the Germans
Among all the strange and hetero
geneous movements, Rusla is trvlng to
find herself. In the Ukraine, the Cadets
have retired from Kkoiopadsky's Gov
ernment, probably peremptorily recalled
by Mllukoff, who seems to have emerged
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