Salt Lake Telegram | 1918-07-10 | Page 5 | Murman Coast Operation Told

MURMAN COAST OPERA OPERATION lION TOLD British and French Troops With Red Guards G Face i B Bolshevik F Foe By Associated Press I LONDON July 10 Me Measures Measures taken by the allies to aid non-Bolshevik non Russians on the Murman coast and and to protect protect the Murman r railroad and the and the l Ice e free fre port of Kola are re summarized By y the Daily Dally Express from Russian newspapers While the opposed the thel l landing of allied troops and even agreed to trade the Murman coast to Finland the local population has de decided decided decided de- de to join the allies aUles and secede from the The first allied intervention occurred early in April when Finnish White I I guards assisted by Germans faced the Red guards at Kem Kern The Red guards were reinforced by y an Anglo- Anglo French d detachment that had come up upon upon upon on an armored train Next the Bussian Russian Russian Rus Bus sian report mentions mentions mentions' the landing of o British m marines Defensive meas measures res were said to be under leadership of a Russian a and a Frenchman Two British and one French warships warships warships war war- ships and abd some British trawlers were in the harbor of Kola in addition to toa toa toa a Russian squadron A report from the commander of the White sea fleet to the Russian naval commissioner in Moscow printed in a Russian paper said that Kemp assumed to be Rear Admiral Kemp of the British navy had declared there was no aggressive design regarding the region only a desire to help the Russian re republic republic re- re public and protect the coas coast and the railroad He also offered to assist in developing the tho local fisheries The Bolshevik government however made a n. public pro protest lest through the Russian wireless on July 30 Leon denounced as high treason I any help given the foreign detachment detachment detach detach- ment which has invaded the Soviet republic He also procla proclaimed ned M. M Yu- Yu I riv nv president of the local soviet a traitor and an enemy of o the people A dispatch to the Daily Dally Man Mall from fromI I Copenhagen dated Monday quotes German German German Ger Ger- man papers as saying that there are I Bolshevik troops left on Kola p peninsula I uIL