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Show I. SLEEPING AMERICAN SOLDIERS FIRED ON BY COSSACK OFFICER Fight Follows in Which Yanks , Capture Train and Several Russian Army Leaders ' TWO DOUGHBOYS ARE j KILLED IN STRUGGLE! Signed Statement Says Attack !t on Men from United States Was Without Warning ST.F.F.PTNa " PAEIS, Jan. 27 General Denikine and his staff have taken refuge on board a British Brit-ish vessel at Constantinople, according to a Zurich dispatch dis-patch to the Echo de Paris. j VLADIVOSTOK, Jan. 27 American j army authorities believe It will be March 15 beforo the last American soldiers and Red Cross workers arc out of Siberia. Orders have been sent that all American women be hurried out o trans-Siberia which is in the path of the advancing Bolshevik army that has moved steadily eastward along the trans-Siberian railroad and now seems to be nearing Irkutsk. Hear j guard Red Cross units are reported at j Chltta, a city just north of the Man-, churian border where the Amur valley branch ol the trans-Siberian joins the 1 main line, while the 27th United , . States infantry is at VerkhnJe-Udmsk, v west of Chila. vk Soldiers of the 27lh are still m pos-(( pos-(( session of the armorejUrJVisptura near Verkhnie-Udinsk on January 10 from Russian troops belonging to one of General Semenorfs commands. Two Americans were killed In this fight I which was caused by the Independent action of a station master who is alleged al-leged to have been intoxicated at the time. , Reports state the Bolsheviki have swung southward from Taiga and have reached the Mongolian frontier. Details of Capture, i ) VLADIVOSTOK, Sunday, Jan. 25, ' (By the Associated Press.) Thirty- eight Americans, members of the rail-; rail-; road guard detachment on duty at Po- solska, near Verhyne-Udinsk, oh January Janu-ary 10, captured one of General Sem-enoff's Sem-enoff's armored trains. The Cossack general commanding it was killed and all officers were captured. The train without provocation had attacked the American detachment which was sleeping in box cars. Two Americans of the 27th Infantry, iL Sergeant. Carl Robins of Louisville, IB, Tenn.. and John Montgomery of New-ry, New-ry, Pa., were killed. Five Russians were killed and six officers, Including ' General Bogomolitz, and -18 men were captured. , 1 The Americans still hold the armor-j : ed train and their prisoners. Their disposition has not been decided on. There are difficulties in communica-! communica-! lion with Col. C. H. Morrow, commander com-mander of the American guard at Verhyne-Udinsk, which is causing delay in receiving details of the trouble in the trans-Baikal district, which Americans Amer-icans are evacuating. Leader Gets Drunk, i . On the evening of the 9th the com-' com-' raander of the train arrested the sta-! sta-! lion commandant at Verhyne-Udinsk: j ' but was forced to release him. Anger-' ; ed, the commander got drunk and pro-' pro-' ceedqd to Posolskaya and at one i o'clock ran his armored train along-; along-; '' s'ide the box cars in which the Am-i Am-i : ericans were sleeping and without provocation opened fire with machine ' ; guns. j The American sergeant commanding I the detachment and the men under V him defended themselves. Thoy rush-hfr. rush-hfr. cd from the train, scrambled over the f5 armored sides, routed the Russians and captured the train and those who m still occupied it. A signed statement of the captured klf men slates that the Russians fired on r the Americans without warning and ' that this armored train since January 1 has aided in the robbery and brutal ' murder of more than 40 men and three ; women. Col. Morrow in a dispatch says Gen eral Semcnoff Is not to be blamed for' ! the action of his subordinates. It Is EI believed hero a peaceful settlement of the incident is possible. |
