Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-03-15 | Page 10 | Bolshevik Force Puts Semenoff to Flight

FOII PUTS Siberian Leader Retreats Re-treats Into Manchuria With His Dead and Wounded; Warning Is Issued by the Chinese. t HARBIN, Manchuria, March 12. General .Somcnoff, anti-Iiolshevik luad-' luad-' er in Siberia, has retreated into Manchuria Man-churia before the advance of superior Bolshevik forces, according to advices from the border. The aceuracy of the Bolshevik fire during the fighting is taken to indicate the co-operation of former German prisoners. General Semenoff brought his dead and wounded with him in his retirement. retire-ment. Nurses and a supporting dctach-' dctach-' ment are to leave Harbin tonight. General Semenoff 's munitions are reported re-ported exhausted, as well as the funds at his disposal. RUSS SITUATION IS GROWING WORSE. Officials of the allies at Harbin agrcje that the situation in Siberia is growing grow-ing worse. Every plan proposed for the amelioration of conditions meets with opposition or apathy, they say, while 50 per cent of the railroad workmen in Manchuria are now Bolshevik in affiliation, affilia-tion, whereas a month ago the percentage percent-age was insignificant. Yesterday the workmen refused to move guns and trains to the aid of General Semenoff and were planning the destruction of the supply outfit. Loyal Cossacks, j however, forced the movement of the j relief trains. j!eliahle observers, according to re- ports received by the Associated Press j t correspondent, have found that there is !". a widespread pro-German propaganda, i'i vith speech-making by Bolshevik ora-Ars, ora-Ars, among the workmen, with never a word of a pro-ally nature. WILSON'S SPEECHES ARE DISTRIBUTED. The American consul at Harbin has distributed 15,000 copies of President j Wilson's speeches and a similar num-her num-her .have been scattered by the consul at Vladivostok. ! The growth of Bolshevikisrn is said by some of the investigators to be due' ' in a measure to fear of the Japanese, with disbelief in the sincerity of Amer-: Amer-: ican friendship as another factor. They report that statements have been heard ; among the propagandists that any class of Germans was preferable to the Jap-:( Jap-:( nnese.