Show 17 YANKS DRIVE I Squad Raises Siege About Camp Where There 19 of 74 Americans Fell FeU Siberia Wednesday 1 July 2 By Bv Bv the tho Associated Press It It was wasat wasal wasat at al this little lIIn village c tift fifty miles northeast northeast northeast north north- east of Vladivostok that at dawn Juno 25 23 a force orco o of attacked an American camp In which were sev sev- four enty-four ent tour men of company A i Thirty Thirty- first Infantry killing nineteen Americans Ameri cans eans and wounding twenty se 1 I others two ot of whom died led of their wounds The men o of company A were guarding guardIng guard guard- Ing the railway from Crom Vladivostok occupying QC- QC oc occupying a n row of or tents pitched near tho the railroad The Bolshevik crept up UJ and hid In the dense denso underbrush and andwood andwood wood piles near m-ar the tho camp At 5 o'clock thc they fired a n valley olley lle which killed many of or the sleeping Americans Others Other who I ha had been wounded staggered out outside and were shot down as they left lert the theton ton tents ts Of at those who escaped the tho first volley unscathed d. d some p pulled lIe on only a light garment or two and a n center center center cen cen- ter of resistance in a log loA cabin cubin firing Iring thence at nt puffs putts of smoke from the bushes Then rhen for tor three hours the Americans I I fought gh as in an n Indian battle of the I frontier clays cianI relief finally coming cominS to lo them when seventeen men arrived ana on n ona a train after an nn American volunteer ha had ran from the besieged ed cabin to the nearest American camp five o fi o miles distant The Bolshevik 1 thinking large reinforcements reinforcements rein rein- were arriving withdrew toy lowal to lo toward wal ward the hills hlll taking their wounded an and some of their dead deR with them but leaving behind eight of their nU number who had been killed The Tho ka attack was the first of oC a serIes that evidently had been planned by the to be carrl curried carried cl clout out along th the Buchan railway On the following day a n Bolshevik force force- at attacked attacked at- at tacked the next station on the road rad using tho the same Harne methods as those employed on the firing on the tents at dawn This limo timo tho the Americans were ready however howe The They were not sleeping In InI n their tents tentH but In 10 log huts from rom which they poured In a n hot flanking fire tIre and inflicted severe losses on the attacking party Second Attack h by hy Reds Hell A Again aln on n the Bolshevik at at attacked tacked tn an American supply train near Two Americans were wounded but on the other othor hand twenty five Il l- l she were lel cd one ono American marksman with an nn automatic rifle killed no nu lc less s than eleven of ot the at at- at Intermittent sniping an and minor at attacks attacks at- at tacks lacks with the destruction here and there of railway bridges and tele telegraph raph lines has continued between n an and for a week communication with tho the American forces having been i cut except for tor service by native cour- cour J cour-J Ions |