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Show : CZECHO-SLOVAKS ARE ' la mm own Battle on July 4 Results in; Favor of the Hard-Fighting Liberators. VLADIVOSTOK, Monday, July 8 (By the Associated Tress. ) The Czechoslovaks Czecho-slovaks are assuming responsibility for order here, though recognizing the municipal mu-nicipal and county governments. 'The assistance of all the Russian factions fac-tions in th;ir operations against the Austro-Germans and the Red Guards who i arc opposed to their progress is being refused re-fused by the Czecho-Slovaks. Xt is believed be-lieved the Red Guard movements are di- j rected by officers of the central powers, j The .destruction of railroad bridges on I this side of the Ural mountains is being I carried out in the German manner of de- struntion. Some of the bridges wrecked j n.rnow being repaired. ! 01' he so-called Siberian government is not. supported by the Czecho-Slovaks. V1 Americans here say the evidence in hand shows that Germany is preparing to disorganize dis-organize Siberian communication. They think the situation is serious. The attitude of the Czecho-Slovaks is . -modest but resolute. The operations of the national council are being loyally supported by officers and men. Americans who have visited the fighting fight-ing front say they saw many dead Magyars and report that many Czechoslovaks Czecho-slovaks found on the battlefield had been brutally mutilated before death. j i Important operations occurred on July 4 in the broken country five to eight miles southward of Nikolaievsk. The battle-front was three miles long. Two thousand Czecho-Slovaks were- opposed by an indefinite number of Magyars, sailors and Bolshevik i who placed machine ma-chine guns behind villagers and factory hands and thus forced them into the trenches to fight the Czecho-Slovaks. The battle lasted eight hours. Meantime Mean-time a detachment of Czecho-Slovaks deployed de-ployed in the direction of Nikolaievsk, threatening the enemy's road of retire-, retire-, ment. The enemy, however, succeeded in 1 looting Nikolaievsk and escaped on eight trains, including armored cars, destroying bridges and tunnels on both lines beyond Nikolaievsk. The Czecho-Slovaks' losses were forty-three forty-three men killed and 250 wcJunded. The enemy's losses are not known. Among i.jiu Lii'iubtiiiu j i ifiuntM LdKKii are tiUU Magyars. The Czecho-Slovaks now are marnhing against the enemy on the road to Khabarovsk. |