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Show LEGAL BATHES EXCITE RUSSIAN Semenoff, "Butcherer" of Americans, Abashed By Quarreling Lawyers NEW" YORK, April S (By thw Ak-oclated Ak-oclated Press.) -General Oratrorle Semenoff iktaman of Cossacks, toda' Beemeo to nna leguJ wariare in we canyons of lower Broadway as exciting excit-ing as the rattle of machine cuns on the steppes of Siberia. Flanked by his American lawyer, and a baini oi' Russian Rupporters, ho was whisked uj to-the twenty-second story of the Equitable Iniildlm; and there, for the second time, was bombarded bom-barded with questions at a bankruptcy bankrupt-cy hearing which followed hlfl civil I arrest in connection with a Judgment for $47 r.TS alleged to have been returned re-turned against him bv Harliin courts. frOOKg Alt v -1 1 1 D j The plaintiff in the action was the I Youroveta IJorhe and Fdrtltru Trad-j Trad-j ing company, which asserted '.hit the I sum represented supplies alleged to I have been stolen by the general ut I Chita. The general has do?ii painted by his enemies a a man of fierce i;a-lure, i;a-lure, hc waded through 'he blood of his ictims, but h seemed just a utile abashed up ther m a New A'ork skyscraper wit-n lawyers Mid reporters battling uv; iy at him In a language he did not understand-Indeed, understand-Indeed, he Wa ar from an lntimt-dating lntimt-dating figure, as he looked Inquiringly Inquir-ingly from our' questioner to another, lut every now and then ho exploded , with an eXpresali n that interpreters i saJil meant "11': a.Ii-r a qutlon had been put to him in Russian. U R I I Its (.1.1 i.i j n i it was doubtful whether the general gen-eral himself gloancj tho full significance signifi-cance of the ch irse hurled at him by Senator Borahi in Washington and Colonel Charles II .Alorroy in Frankfort, Frank-fort, to the effect that he had proved prov-ed himself in Siberia a "butcherer" of Americana and "the greatest monster mon-ster of modem times." When newspaper mci approach) tl him at the close of the (waring with dispatches from AVa.mingloo stating that Mr. Borah was seeking his .ic portatlon. they wer mot li some of his party who explained thai the general was tired ou' after three hours of questioning, that lie didn't peak English anyway, and that they had better see hi attorney. Ueorgel ,W, Glaze. Whereupon there w isl loosed upon th' general hy his reti-, nue a volley of RUOfiuh bristling! with "skjK. ' and "vitehes" and the general wu.s thrust into an elevator without ihe reporters knowing whether he knew what their crrund.1 had been. HELD RTDIQULOl -AVhen Mr. QlaM was show n I hi- j iiingioii uispaicn. ne etciaimea: "Deportation that -i what tho general gen-eral wants. He floesn't want to tay in this country anyway" AA'hon newspaper men attempted to explain that if the general wore deported de-ported it might not bo to Franco in the cabin which he has reserved for his wife and hlniHelf aboard the Aqul-tania Aqul-tania next Tuesday, Mr. ilaze assert- ed tho whole matter was ridiculous anyway. Th. , hargeq now hurled at the gon 1 rul ,ill had been brought up at :.in-couver, :.in-couver, he said, when the Cossack leader landed. At that time he said, representative! representa-tive! of the American Legion were (in ) ind after the gj 1 oaral had set forth that h.- was fighting the Boiihe- vik-i with allied help, the American slate department had vised his passports, |