Ogden Daily Standard | 1918-07-09 | Page 3 | Armed Germans Are at Irkutsk

m-j American Official Mission I Confirms Report Talked B Freely With Prisoners. LONDON, July 9. An American of-ffl- ficial mission just returned from Mars' Mar-s' bin, Siberia, confirms recent rumors M of the presence at Irkutsk of 10,000 m armed German and Magyar prisoners, IK according to a dispatch to the Daily IB Mail, from Harbin dated July 1. The IB prisoners talked freely with the Amer-IB Amer-IB icans, with whom they seemed anxious IB to ingratiate themselves. They said IB they were fighting the Czecho-Slovaks IB 'because the Czecho-Slovaks were pre-B pre-B venting them from returning home. IB The correspondent says the prison -IB ers were acting under orders trans-B trans-B mitted through Count von Mirbach IB who ordered Uiem to prevent the IB Czecho-Slovaks at all costs from IB reaching eastern Siberia and Vladi-B Vladi-B vostok. V A dispatch to the Mail from Tlen- B Tsln, dated July 3, says the overthrow IB of the Bolshevik! at Vladvostok pro- B duced remarkable effects in eastern B Siberia, especially among the adher- IB ents of General Semenoff, who seemed B to have a renewed chance of ,over- B coming their opponents in the country B east of Lake Baikal. W Dispatches received July 5,' stated B that the- Bolshevik forces and armed K German and Austrian prisoners had K been defeated near Irkutsk by tlie B Czecho-Slovaks and had retreated B eastward from that city.