Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-09-22 | Page 2 | Entente Sink Enemy Ships

ENTENTE SUT DEW SIS Allied Naval Units on the Dwina Destroy Two Bolshevik Bol-shevik Vessels. Assassin Attempts Life of Leon Trotzky, but Aim Is Poor. LONDON, Sept. 21. Entente naval units and allied troops operating along the river Dwina, In northern European Russia, have sunk two enemy ships and have captured three puns, according to an official statement issued by the British Brit-ish war office today. Heavy losses were inflicted on the Bolshevik forces by the entente allies. Trotzky Escapes Death. AMSTERDAM, Sept. 21. An attampt was made at Kursk to assassinate Leon Trotzky, the Bolshevik minister of war and marines, according to a dispatch sent from Kiev by the correspondent of the Leipsig Abend Zeltung. The correspondent says a soldier fired twice at Trotzky but missed his mark. U. S. Uniform Familiar. ARCHANGEL, Russia, Wednesday, Sept. 11. (By tho Associated Press.) The American contingent in northern Russia already has played an important role. Its uniform is familiar everywhere from Archangel to the front. The engineers are busily engaged jn constructing roads and in other detail work while the other troops and sailors are carrying out their respective duties. ; Many of the men had been disinclined to come to Russia, fearing there would i be no excitement, as compared with that ! in France. Their tune now is a changed : one. J Besides having their military duties to perform the Americans have been hard j at work in sanitation, relentlessly scrub-: scrub-: bing down the quarters formerly occupied ! by the Bolshevik! and digging drainage I ditches. I Recently, owing to a political dispute, a street car system in Archangel was brought to a standstill. A squad of De-j De-j troit motormen immediately took charge 1 of the situation and now the dinkv liitle ! cars are running through the streets of i the city in true American style. : Poole Is Safe. WASHINGTON, Sept. 21. The Norwegian Norwe-gian foreign office advised the state department de-partment today that American Consul General Poole at Moscow had not been arrested by the Bolsheviki, as recently reported, and that direct communication had been held with Moscow as late as September 12. Reports regarding mistreatment of Americans in Russia have not been confirmed, con-firmed, it was said here today. In fact all official reports up to yesterday were I declared to show that, while French and ! ' British citizens had been mistreated in a I number of cases, the Bolshevik leaders ; had shown unfailing courtesy and con-' con-' sideration for Americans. ! Will Issue Appeal. 1 AMSTERDAM. Sert. 21. At a recent meeting of the members of the Russian duma and the Russian imperial council ; at Kiev, it was resolved, says a telegram j from that city, to issue an appeal to the I public opinion of all governments, to put I an end to the Bolshevist terror. The Ukrainian council, the dispatch I adds, has decided to send a protest to all countries against the arrest and shooting shoot-ing of Ukrainian subjects in Russia and the "inhuman" form of political struggle now existing. The Ukrainian government also has decided to ask Germany to undertake un-dertake the protection of Ukrainian Russia. Rus-sia. Letts in Mutiny. AMSTERDAM, Friday, Sept. 21. The recent Bolshevik defeat on the northern front is attributed to a mutiny of Lettish regiments, according to a Petrograd telegram tele-gram to the North German Gazette of Essen. The telegram says that the Letts, who hitherto have been faithful allies of the soviet jf.'Vernment, refused to fight against British.