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Show obtained the removal of the armored train from the tracks opposite them. The representatives at Vladivostok of Admiral Kolchak have informed Major General William S. Graves, commander of the American forces In Siberia, that the Omsk government had issued orders for the delivery to Semenoff of 15,000 rifles. T-ONDON", Monday, Nov. 1 7. Representatives Represen-tatives of Esthonia, Latvia. Lithuania, Finland, Poland, Ukralnia and "White Russia have declared in favor of the formation for-mation of a political and military alliance in defend the independence of those nations, na-tions, according to advices received by Reuter's Limited. COSSACKS HALT U. S. FORCES. Semenoff held up the train conveying t!ie arms at Chita on October 24. and gave the Americans until U o'clock on the morning of October 25 to comply with his demand. Details of what happened after Semenoff issued his ultimatum were not known until today. The American train was held up for forty hours, the lieutenant commanding the train guard not knowing until after the expiration of Semenoff's time limit that the Japanese had interfered and obtained permission for the train to proceed. According to members of the Stevens railway commission at Chita, after Semenoff Seme-noff demanded the rifles, tho guard of fifty Americans crept under the cars, using the cases of guns as a barricade. Semenoff ran an armored train on the tracks opposite them. The Americans planned to blow up the rails at each end of the armored train as soon as the attack began to prevent the moving of 'the Semenoff train, and then to storm and capture it, the train being too close for the Americans to use field pieces. After the expiration of the ultimatum the Americans demanded and |