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Show Allies Must Send 150,000 Troops to Protect Food, RELIEF CALLED FOR 'Large Force of Czech-Slovaks Czech-Slovaks in Desperate i Straits. i I VLADIVOSTOK, Monday, Aug. 5. (B3' the Associated Press.) General. Horvathy self-styled "nSaiTof. Cheiow All -Russian government" declares that 150,000 allied troops wjll be required re-quired to prevent Germany from obtaining ob-taining control of the food resources of Siberia and Mongolia. General Hor-vath's Hor-vath's visit here was for the purpose of opening negotiations with the Vladivostok Vlad-ivostok group of the "autonomous Siberian Si-berian government" Coincident with his arrival came announcements an-nouncements from Washington and Tokio relative to the scope of 'the allies' al-lies' movements to relieve the Czechoslovaks. Czecho-slovaks. General Horvath declares that a large force of Czecho-Slovaks are in desperate straits at Irkutsk being be-ing surrounded by Bolshevik and Magyar Mag-yar troops and without a chance for Immediate relief. Midway between Nikolsk and Khab-arosk Khab-arosk a few thousand Czecho-Slovaks are opposing a larger force of th& enemy, he says. They are sadly out of proportion to the task confronting them, even if supplied with artillery, which is now lacking. Why Francis Left Vologda. VOLOGDA, Russia, Thursday, July 25. (By the Associated Press.) Th reason for Ambassador Francis and tho other diplomats leaving Vologda for Archangel today was their refusal to comply with Insistent demands of I the Bolshevik foreign office that they move to Moscow. The Bolsheviki said they wanted tho diplomats to move br-caus br-caus they believed Vologda soon would be the center of counter-revolutionary fighting. Ambassador Francis and his colleagues col-leagues expressed full confidence in the people of Vologda and declined lo go to Moscow. The soviet government at first refused to provide an engine for a special train to Archangel. M. Tchitcherln. the foreign minister, tele-1 tele-1 graphed that Archangel was net a fit place for the ambassadors in case of siege, but was willing to grant an engine en-gine on condition that the allied embassies em-bassies leave Russia as soon as a ship could be provided. The .allied diplomats diplo-mats accepted and started today for Archangel. No Desire to Leave Russia. In a final message to the Russlau foreign minister, Ambassador Francis declared he had no desire to leave Russia unless forced to do so, and, in any event, his absence would be only temporary. The counsels of the allied country, he said, would remain in Russia. Tchitcherln said the departure of the ambassadors would not alter In the slightest the relations of soviet Russia Rus-sia with the allied countries. The final message sent to Tchlt-cherin Tchlt-cherin by Ambassador Francis, a3 dean of the diplomatic corps, reviewed review-ed the correspondence that led to the decision of the ambassadors to go lo Archangel and continued: "Your message expressing frlendlj feelings for the people I represent and the desire on your part to maintain relations with them is appreciated, but you will permit me to say that your'treatment of me as their representative repres-entative docs not accord with such expressions ex-pressions "." Mr. Francis then dealt with tho. manner in which his communication with the American state 'departmeus had been interferred with and delayed and continued: "Your telegram states that Archangel Arch-angel is not a fit residence for'amb'as-sadors for'amb'as-sadors In the 'event of a 'siege.' Do' yqu expect a German siege of Archangel? |