| Show REVOLT V lT OF f fI I SI f IAN CRUSHED Attempts of Rebel Force at Vladivostok to Get Control of the City Completely Defeated By Oy Associated Press Prell VLADIVOSTOK Nov 18 y Revolutionary forces which for two days have attempted to obtain control of this city were completely defeated by government government government govern govern- ment troops today General Gaida Galda the revolutionary leader was wounded wound wound- ed and captured and his followers were driven from every point of or vantage by government troops Shortly after midnight ht government troops moved two three-Inch three field guns Into position at the bridge by which this main mainI thoroughfare of at the city crosses the I Siberian railroad The Tho bridge is only 1500 yards north of ot the station the strongest position of ot the rebels A little tittle later troops reinforced by I cadets from the naval training school schoot proceeded to the business center of II the city while armored cars began arriving at the bridge Before Detore the battle opened International policemen nn and three American soldiers gained entrance to the railway station from which they took two Russian women who vho had been marooned there sInce sine the fighting started MACHINE GUN FIRE At 1 o'clock there was a a. burst o ot of machine gun fire against rebels holdIng holding holding hold hold- ing the railway yards and gunboats started to drop shells on the station Some of ot the shells set tl fie e to the tho barracks of the American replacement replacement replacement replace replace- ment br battalion Vh While II 13 government officials expressed expressed ex ex- pressed the belief there thoro would be belittle belittle belittle little resistance by the rebels th the latter seemed to be In control o othe ot of the railroad yards ards although exposed to artillery fire tire from the high ground about the tho city Fire was opened at 4 o'clock at the station from the tho field guns on the bridge Later the fl fighting became general with the revolutionists falling failing back everywhere and finally being driven from the station TWO FORCES CLASH The social revolutionary group had proclaimed their new new- I I democratic representative government Monday morning A few hours later Inter I I the opposing forces clashed for tor poe poe- session of the ra railway station approximately approximately approxImately rifle and machine gun gunshots I Ii shots being fired before nightfall I I Government forces under General Genera GeneralI I held the entire town with j I the exception of the Immediate vi vicinity vl- vl of ot the station and in fn n addition I controlled the line of ot hills west am and north of the town Machine guns were placed at street corners Allied Amell troops patrolled the city with withA A A troops protecting American Amerlean organizations The United States cruisers New Orleans and Brooklyn under command of Vice Admiral Rfd er are lying in fn the harbor Hoisted on top of oC General Gaidas Gaida's train I train near the station was a green and white flag the colors of the Siberian 51 assembly which was vas dissolved dis dis- solved d b by Admiral Kolchak Kolchak- On the banner was Inscribed the words For Fora a Constituent Assembly PRESIDENT NAMED After Arter the proclamation of oC the revolutionaries revo revo- yesterday morning In which they announced their opposition to Kolchak a semblance of ministry was at formed on General Gaidas Gaida's train Ivan being named president General Gaida Galda a Czech who commanded com corn mended the Ural army of the government until his recent resignation resignation U tion n was named commander In chiefe chief c of the new governments government's military forces Announcement was made by the military council at 6 o'clock last night that it had decided that the allies should not interfere In fn the movement which was considered political in fn character Property of Russians and allied subjects was protected last nl night ht by American Japanese French Italian Serbian and Russian soldiers forming the International police corps All AU attaches to the railway station were under tinder heavy guardI guard RAIDS ON STATION I After Arter three raids against th the railroad railroad railroad rail rail- road station General Galda's Gaidas troops occupied the building and he established established headquarters there at about 6 5 p. p p m. m The losses In this lighting fighting were six dead and twenty wounded on the Gaida side flide The losses loans to the government troops were not an an- It is estimated that civilians civilian were victims of ot the firing I some being killed The American Red fled Cross Is i. caring for el fifty eight ht wounded A British Red Cross officer was I killed at the station plaza T. T W W. Rowland or of Beach Duch Cal Cat a mate on the New Orleans was hit by a bullet and Is not ex expected ex- ex p pee d to live During Durin the station fight Russian gunboats bombarded bombard d the railroad I yards their objective evidently being I O General nral Gaidas Gaida's train By Dy 11 p. p m m. I there was wu only desultory rifle firing tiring south of the station The warships playing their searchlights hu on the city aided the tit allied med patrols In their work It is la s reported that a a. similar uprising has has' occurred has occurred at Chita in the Trans Trans- baikal region |
