Show lt 30 o COSSACKS SLAIN BY YANKEES FOR I GIRLS GIRL'S MURDER i p Captain Killed Friend of off f I Americans Who Then Avenge Her HerN N N. N E. E A. A Staff Special SAN FRANCISCO Dee 24 How How th f i American doughboys stationed in n Siberia iberIa annihilated an equal number num- num I ber of at Cossacks In tn revenge for their brutal murder of a young Russian woman oman who had been kind to the Americans Is being related here by Lieutenant J. J Walter alter Resin who rec recentlY re- re c returned from the far north- north least east iThe The affair which happened a a. few miles mUes from the Siberian village of ot was precipitated by one Captain a Cossack who murdered a a. young woman called our Marie b by the doughboys over whom he had bad exercised a a. gentle and kindly Influence Influence for many weel KILLED FOR JEALOUSY was WM ds in m love with her says cays Lieutenan and deeply deelY relented her attentions to the Amerl- Amerl can cin troops Finally he filled himself Ith vodka went to her apartments and murdered her in cold blood Hood IK Following the assassination Nemi- Nemi koff gathered together some thirty of ot othis his men and fled to the mountains pursued by an equal number of Amerl- Amerl cans whom I had the honor to leau leaa i We Ve rounded them up after seven se days of hard riding over the mountains moun moun- ains finding them encamped on the shore of ofA A lake in a deep gully ADVANCE INDIAN FASHION After advancing Indian fa fashion fashion- chion- chion by y y crawling on our stomachs rough he grass bordering the beach beach I I suddenly sud- sud enly denly stood up and demanded their i surrender The answer was a a. volle volley I Without further cO co CT We Charged them with fixed bayonets and anda a bloody to hand struggle en- en sued After Atter two hours of ot fighting we had load accounted for tor all the Russians except ex- ex two who had slipped away Under under under un- un der cover of darkness This ruthless murder of ot innocent women women and children seems to be all the he rage rae in the old world but the beasts who attempt it near American soldiers are certainly in for tor a lot of ot hard luck I Resin was wall the officer who recently investigated and reported to o 0 Major General raves s commanding the American forces in fn Siberia a long Ilist list of atrocities charged to Kolchak's I conscription officers |