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Show SEMENOFF ALL HE IS CHARGED H. W. Allen, With S. E. F. Says Ataman Led Gang of Bandits That. Giegorie Semenoff. ataman of the Cossacks, was all that has been said about him and a great deal that because of the proprieties can never bo said In print, was t'jo statement yesterday yester-day of H. W. Allen of the L. R. Ste'l corporation, who was with the Siberian expeditionary forces at the time that Semenoff was terrorizing that country. )ne of his favorite pastimes, according accord-ing to Mr Allen, was the molng up of one of his armored cars and after training the guns on the buildings of a Hlage allowing his men to practice by hooting the buildings to pieces irrespective ir-respective as to whether there were occupants oc-cupants in the houses or not. n one occasion he moved one of those armored cars Into Yeurko-I'dinsk Yeurko-I'dinsk where companies A. B and C of the Twenty-Seventh Infantry and companies com-panies M and I of the Thirty-first infantry in-fantry as well as a machine gun company com-pany and a company equipped With one-pounders were stationed. Colonel Morrow was In command, Mr. Allen said, and he ordered Sem-enofl Sem-enofl to "emovi lie armored car lm-i. lm-i. i itely, which, after some argument with th Japanese general stationed at that point, was done but only after the American force hml made It plain to both the Japanese general and to Sem-t Sem-t noff that the order to remove the car was to be backed up by armed troops Another favorite stunt Of Semenoff. Ml Alb-n said, was to seek out all per-SOns per-SOns In any way opposed to the rule of his army and Immediately execute them Mr. Allen said that SemenoffS alleged army was nothing more than group of tandlts and Ihut there was no such thing as discipline among them. He said that they were no; t bo consider) $ sol tiers In any sense t Vallchafcliia on one occasion Senn noff ordered the Immediate execution exe-cution of a number of women who were believed to have been members n'. one time of the famous battalion of death the members of which were recruited re-cruited from among women opposed to the rule of the Cfcar. |