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Show Revolutionists Meet Complete Defeat I at Vladivostok I Leader Wounded and Captured and Followers Driven from Every Ev-ery Point of Vantage by Government Troops Machine Gun Fire and Shells Drive Rebels from Railway Yards Allied Troops Patrolling the City and U. S. Forces Guarding Americans. VLADIVOSTOK, Tuesday, Nov. 18 (By the Associated Press ) Revo lutlonary forces which for two days (have attempted to obtain control of this city were completely defeated by go ernni'-nt H oop- today. General Galda, the revolutionary leader, was wounded and captured and his follow-, follow-, rs Were driven from every point of I vantage b government troops Shortly after midnight government I troops moved two 3 inch field guns mto position at the Svetlandskaia bridge, b which this main thoroughfare thorough-fare of the city crosses the Siberian railroad. The "bridge is only 500 vards I north of the station, the strongest p0 ,itlon of the rebels. A little later troops, reinforced by 100 cadets from the naval trcinim; school, proceeded to the business center of the city. 'while armored cars began arriving at the bridge. j Before the battle opened, International Interna-tional policemen and ihree American 'soldiers gained entrance to the rail way station, from which they took two Russian women who had been marooned ma-rooned there since the fighting started. 1 1 o'clock 1 here was a burst of machine gun fire against the rebels holding the railway yardu and gunboats gun-boats started to drop shells on the station. Some of the shells set fire to the barracks of the American replacement re-placement battolion. While government officials ex pressed the bell, f there would be lit tie resistance by the rebels, the latter lat-ter seemed to be in control of the r- i I-load I-load vards. although exposed to art 11-ler) 11-ler) fire from the high ground about j I ho city. Rcb,el6 Driven From Yards. Fire was opened at i o'clock on the Btation from ihe Held guns on the Svetlandskaia bridge Later the fighting became general with the revolutionists rev-olutionists falling back everywhere and finally being driven from the station. sta-tion. Tho Social - Revolutionary zemstvo group 1U1(I proclaimed their new democratic dem-ocratic representative government I Monday morning A few hours later the opposing forces clashed for possession posses-sion of the railway station, approximately approxi-mately 5,000 rifle and machine gun shots being fired before nightfall. Government Gov-ernment forces under General Roza noff held the entire town with the exception ex-ception of the immediate vicinity of the station and In addition controlled the line of hills west and north of the town. Machine guns were placed at street corners Allied troops patrolled the eitj with American troops protecting Auferican organizations The United States cruisers New Orleans and Brooklyn, under command of Vict Admiral Rod gers, are lying in the harbor. Hoisted on top of General Galda'8 train near the station was a green and white flag, the colors of the Siberian assembly which was dissolved by Admiral Ad-miral Kolchak. On the banner was inscribed in-scribed the words ' For a Constituent Assemblv After the proclamation of the revolutionaries revo-lutionaries yesterday morning in -which they announced their opposition to Kolchak, a semblance of a ministry was formed on General Galda's train. Ivan Alexandrovitcb Yakushifl being named president. General Gnida, a Czech, who torn manded the Ural army of tho Omsk government until his recent resigna tion, was named commander-ln chief of the new government's military forces. Announcement was made by the al lied military council at 6 o'clock last night that it had decided that the al lies should not interfere in the movement move-ment which was considered political in character Property of Russians and allied sub jects was protected last night bj American, Japanese, French, Italian. Serbian, Lettish and Russian soldiers forming the International police corps. All approaches to the railway station were under heavy guard Three Raids on Station After three raids against the rail road station, General Gaida's troops occupied the building and he establish Bd headquarters at about five p m The losses in this fighting were six dead and twenty wounded on the Gaida side. The losses to the government troops were not announced. It ip estimated es-timated that 100 civilians were victims vic-tims of the firing, some being killed The American Red Cross is caring tor 58 wounded. A British Red Cross officer was killed at the station plntform. T. W Rowland, of Hermosa Beach, Cnl a sailmakers' mate on the New Orleans, was hit by a bullet and is not expected to live. During the station fight Russian gunboats bombarded the railroad yards, their objective apparenth be ing General Gaida's train By 11 p m. there was only desultory firing south of the station The warships phing their searchlights on the city, aided the allied patrols in their work. It is reported that a similar uprising has occurred at Chita in the Trans-1 Baikal region. |