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Show Allies and Czechoslovaks Czecho-slovaks Drive BoSsSie-viki BoSsSie-viki 15 Miles. PRISONERS TAKEN Wounded Men Placed in Hands of the Red Cross. .VLADIVOSTOK, Monday, Aug. 26. (By the Associated Press) Entente Allied forces and Czecho-Slovak troops have attacked the Bolshevik Red guard on the Usurl river front and have driven tho enemy back for a distance of fifteen miles. Prisoners were taken and booty was captured by the Allied forces. Thirty-eight wounded French and Czecho-Slovak soldiers arrived here from the Usuri fighting zone. The men were transported by the American Ameri-can army medical corps which overcame over-came the greatest obstacles to obtain a sanitary train lo move them to Vladivostok. They wero turned over to the care of the American Re'd Cross. The recent attempt of Lieutenant-Gcneral Lieutenant-Gcneral Horvath to gain control of the Russiar military forces in Russia was such a complete failure that it Is probable the -100 Zemstvo troops which sided with him and subsequently subsequent-ly were disarmed will join tho army of General Semenoff, the anti-Bolshe-vlk leader, in Trans-Baikalia who is co-oporating with tho Entene forces. The troops made no resistance to the decision of the Allies that the.v must lay down their arms. The disarming of the Zemstovs was effected by squads of Allied troops who virtually besieged the barracks occupied by the revolters. A decision to submit an ultimatum to the revolters revol-ters was reached by the council commanders. com-manders. The revolters wero given tho option of returning to their original command or of joining tho forces of General Semenoff on the Manchuiian front, on of submitting to disarmament. ' |