Ogden Daily Standard | 1918-03-25 | Page 1 | Russians and Germans Unite

RUSSIANS AND mm unite Organizing Army Corps in Si-, Si-, beria Cossacks Joining Ten j Thousand Germans. HUNS GUARDING RIFLES Plan to Mobilize Along Frontier Fron-tier and Oppose Advance of Foreign Troops. HARBIN. Monday, March 18 (By tho Associated Press.) Russian and German soldiers in Siberia aro organizing organ-izing an army corps composed of ono exclusively Russian division and another an-other which will bo two-thirds German Ger-man and one-third Austrian, according to reports reaching official quarters at Irkutsk. Four thousand Cossacks are said to have joined 10,000 Germans, tho combined xorce Deing opecieu iu go to Irkutsk. L. S. Gray, an American business man at Omsk, reports that 1000 prisoners pris-oners with, machine guns, airplanes, motorcycles, armored cars and , ammunition am-munition have been concentrated at Tomsk. At Krasnoyarsk a passport bureau has boon established and is supplying tho Austrian soldiers credentials cre-dentials under Russian names. Germans Ger-mans are guarding 10,000 rifles in the arsenal at Irkutsk. All theso movements, move-ments, according to information reaching reach-ing here, are parts of a plan to mobilize mob-ilize along the frontier and oppose any advance by foreign troops. President Wilson's message to the All -Russian congress at Moscow has been received with enthusiasm in Siberia. Thero Is much speculation as to whether his remark about tho inability in-ability of America to give help referred to Siberia. Tho press as a whole interprets in-terprets the message as a guarantee of Russia's integrity .against ' all outsiders. out-siders. 1