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Show RUSSIA SEALED I TO TRAVELERS I Old World Caravan Route Used By Actenls of Bol- I slieviki I.ONHON. Sept. 2S (Correspond- ence). Russia remains the one coun " H try sealed to tne post-war tourist. Un-til Un-til an Associated Press correspondent and another American recently mad.- H the 5,000-mile Journey from viadlvos- H tok. Siberia, Into Rusela proper. H through Moscow and Petrograd ami r out across the Finnish frontier m f Americans had . roused Kusf-la for rl more than two years. !! After Admiral Kolchtik's defeat r v-ir Russia and pait of Siberia .ig.iln gi wero united, but tho Red forces dhl F not follow up their successes beyond Irkutsk. Scattered remnants of Kol- ihak't forces retreated on foot to I'hita where they Joined with the Cos- suens hiiu legionaries unaer Ataman jSemeneff and there again established I an anti-Bolshevik barrier. IH Then Vladivostok, the Siberian port. J fell to local revolutionists who ex- iH 1 pressed their sympathy for the soviet regime but it was understood In Vlnd- H ivostok. the attempt to establish .1 snv- U t regime in Far Eastern Siberia tr.n postponed after the do- purture of foreign troops- 8IBER DIVIDED, Thus Siberia remained divided, the Bolshevik flag flying In tho Lake Bal- kal provinces, while between these dls- trlcts Semcnoff and his Cossacks con- iH tinned to hold the "black spot" of SI- Iberia, as the Bolshevik term the Cos- sack territory. Thousands of refugees from Bolshc- Ism are gathered In Irkutsk. Their I H onc desire is to get out of BolsheviR' territorj bu) the 1 !os3acks will not . ifl low them to p ss along ths railway I zone, fearing Bolshevik tigonts in their f umbers, 1 in I lis ol her side of I h. : Cossack barrier, refugees who have-' gathered at Vladivostok and Harbin .luring the last three years try In vain H to cross the Cossack belt into soviet ' Siberia. Difficult llvng conditions In If I l idivnotok have mad.- them ready'. II listeners to the stories of bolshevik ' agents about ideal life under the sov- dH let regime. Each group of refugees fl wishes to be in the other's shoes l M s CAR WAV ROUTE, J Qnfl way is open Into Siberia. A de- ! tour through northern r-hlna and Mon-golla. Mon-golla. across tho Gobi desert brings the v traveler Into Siberia across the north-1 north-1 rn Mongolian frontier Over this fl route thousands of i'htn.s, laborers Jfl m'l sm..!l r. turned to China since th,- establishment of th I across btongc fl H i Into China nnd Bolshevik agcnfc a the 700-mile Gobi desert In thelfi H to and from th-- Vladivostok dis-" H It was this old world caravan routeS thai the Associated Press correspond-jj enl used to enter Siberia, traveling bv tr.iln. .iiitoniuliil... hors, n, steam5 J bo.it from Peking t,, Wrkhne-UdinsWJ fl on the Soleogn river, where travel by fl the Trans-Siberian railway again 9 H possible. Wireless dispatches from MoscowC s(-'t' Hi-it At mi. 1:. Semcnoff haC .eased his a nil - Bolsln i k activities h.is, I' 1- reported, . asked That his H I forces be Incorporated In the Bolshe-Jj vik armies. Such action would mennj an open way Into Siberia. iH Bu Asia never will compete witlC j Europe for thp favor of the battlefield j tourist. There can be no few days); 1 fours of the hnttlefi.-lds (n Fttl.ssi.i Tli.-r. 1, ,,r spaces.5 .as well as of guns nnd men and stral-JS r-cy- In n dav ad JJ nr.- nr retrea ov.-r more k'rouiuH I than si.r.v European armies covcreofi fl in vcars of war. Z The retreat of Admiral Kolch k 'C ffl I'.T. .-s fii.-n I'. nil and I't" 1 i-n.l. d ,.r fl Chita, 3.000 miles to the rear the dls- t nce across the United States FronM Maine to California -the longest re-S treat In military history. And the dls- t from Ihe IColchak front In fralsj to the 'ot.-r -usslan fronts Is that ofS the breadth of Kurope. fl 1 |