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Show JHCJUil ENGINEER IHE51H RUSSIA Victim Is Charles S. Smith of St. Louis, Member of the Stevens Mission. 9 j V PETROGKAD, Dec. 14. Charles S. ! Smith of St. Louis, a member 'of the : staff of John F. Stevens, head of the; Jj American railway commission to Russia, j is reported to have been arrested. Mr. Smith Is reported to have been ar-1 ar-1 rested at Tchita. Siberia, in company vi th M. Otisirougof f, former assistant minister of railways, who is hold by the Rolsheviki as a member of the provisional government. Ambassador Francis has telegraphed to tlin American consuls at Harbin and Vladivostok tn intervene. At the Stnolnv irtMitute, the Bolsheviki headquarters, it was stated that if the American had been nrresied it was a mistake and he would He immediately released. ST. I .OUtS. Pec. i:. The St. Louis man whnse airest was icpnrted in a Pct-rourad Pct-rourad ihspnich is apparently Charles H. Smit b, f i iii e j 1 a va hia tion engineer tVr ihr Missouri V'acifi.' railway. Mr. Smith left the oucinecrlng depart-mppt depart-mppt of the Missouri Pacific in become a member of the valuation board formed .in'ntly by the railroads and the sroverVt-inont sroverVt-inont to determine the value of ti railroads rail-roads in the United States. In May. he and his wife, went In Russia, where he had work wiih Anier-iryn Anier-iryn railway promoters. After the American Amer-ican railway o"m mission arrival in Rus--:e joined that body. Last Ooinbpr a letter was n-ceived here from Smith stnt-' stnt-' ng that ho tl .en was in Harbin. Mau-'huria. Mau-'huria. and hnd piven up his pnvate lu- i teresis to wo.'k with the Amori.-an eom- l mission. |