Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-11-22 | Page 14 | Gaida's Revolt Quickly Ended

CUTS REVOLT QUICKLY ENDED Czech Commander Now Prisoner of Soldiers of Omsk Government. VLADIVOSTOK, Tuesday. Nov. 16, via -Russian Island U. S. Naval Service. (By g the Associated Press.) Rudolph Gaida, SO-year-old Czech general, until this j morning tho most dramatic fighter de- j 1 veloped during the five years the Czecho- Slovaks have been In Russia, tonight was the most tragic. Galda, who rose from -private to general, and who twice freed Siberia from organized Bolshevism, at daylight, wounded, wet and disheveled, limped along the streets of Vladivostok a prisoner of soldiers of the Omsk government. gov-ernment. Tonight, the anniversary of the coup d'etat by which Kolchak placed himse.f in power through promising a constituent assembly and. immediate representative government for Siberia, the plot to overthrow over-throw Admiral Kolchak was completely-crushed completely-crushed here. Gaida was captured at the railroad station sta-tion when the revolutionary troops surrendered sur-rendered after suffering from the cross- fire of a field piece placed at the corner of the station plaza. This fired at a 100-yard range into the revolutionists. Russian torpedo boats were In the harbor. , Wounded in the leg by a grenade. Galda was marched through the streets under heaw guard to the headquarters of the all-Russian staff. A few hours later he was turned Into the custody of the Ozecho-SIovaks to be deported within three davs. Vladivostok is quiet. There has been no firing since early this morning, with the exception of the volleys of tne execution execu-tion squad. Martial law has been declared. de-clared. I Tne revolution and winter arrived simu!- ; taneouslv. A rainstorm yesterday turned into a blizzard, and tonight the bodies of the dead revolutionists, still lying '.n the starton plaza, were snow-covered mounds, unmolested except when robbed of boots and clothing bv tome prowler. A hundred bodies are scattered through the railroad vards In this vicinity. Eighteen dead revolutionists are lying on the station steps where thev were shot this morning. Officials of the all-Russian government are holding 100 prisoners. Including many railroad workers. The government losses in the fighting are unknown, their dead having been removed. re-moved. Occasional wounded soldiers and civilians continue to arrive at the Amerl- can Red Croes emergency hospital. Aid i has been sent from this to the Russian hospital. Tr.ls is the nearest that any -American came to being a casualty dur- , ing the eighteen hours' fighting, with the exception of one sailor, a member of the Internationa: patrol, who had a rifle and a revolver knocked from his hands.