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Show CITY CAPTURED I BY QUICK WORK! Occupation of Vladivostok by Japanese Explained in Delayed Dispatch VLADIVOSTOK, Monday, April 4. (By the Associated Press.) Occupation Occupa-tion of Vladivostok by Japanese forces today was the result of well prepared surprise maneuvers. At 1 o'clock this morning sandbags appeared from e cry Japanese station. The"red" headquarters wus covered" by machine guns, while tho Russians were celebrating Easter. Hostilities proceeded at the railroad station. The Zcmstvo building was shelled by Japanese Jap-anese one-pounders. The Japanese battleship in Vladivostok harbor assisted as-sisted the early morning attack by use of searchlights on the buildings the Japanese shelled. ' A severe brush occurred at the interallied in-terallied barracks compound. Thrco hundred Russians were penned In by machine guns apparently mounted on the Japanese Red Cross hospital. They were captured and disarmed without resistance. Unarmed Men Ivilled. Two unarmed Czech soldiers going into their quarters were killed by fire from these machine guns, alongside the Red Cross barracks. oo |