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Show iOSSACK FACES MURDER CHARGE I BORAH WOULD TRY SEMEME FOR KILLINGS Idaho Senator Relentless in His Assault on . Siberian GENERAL IS HOOTED I Ogden Physician Says 'Ata- ! man' Was Bad Bandit With Harem ! BY GEORGE R n l ME8 It (International Sews service) r Washington, April 13. Deter- H mined to "smoke out ' the admihlstra- H 1 t ion's Russian policy and to open up. H If possible, the whole secret chapter sJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJ . of this government's relations with that 1 unhappy country s.nce the downfall H I ) ' Si no mi h mad bold H Ills lust was to t-sue a .-ubpo. n BJJJJJJJJJJJJJ , as chairman of the, senutu committee H on education and labor, fen the hp- pearance of Boris Bakhmctcff. tlu H Russian ambassador to appear before 1 his committee, which for a week has 1 been delving into the question of erul Semenoff's desirability In thl9 Ills second move was to i 1 gram to Colonel William Haywa'd. H United States district attorney for N. v fork, asking If ther't is anv possible BJH ' way of holding General Semcnoff for H the murder of American soldiers. B (.IN FJtAL in J Ml. The general, ataman -.i ail the Cos- I sacks. Is now languishing In Ludlow H ' street jail in New York on a civil H charge of appropriating a lot of goods in Siberia that belonged to an Am- H , erican firm, without the formality uf H ' paying for them. Senator Borah wants him indicted on H the more serious charge of causing lie H ; cold blooded murder of American so!- ' diets in Siberia, to which American H army officers have testified this week H ' before his committee. General Graves and Colonel Charles H Morrow tes- H ' tlfted that Semenoff's wild Cossacks H had fired into a box car of sleeping H Americans, killing two, and iln that , Semenoff was responsible for the mur-' mur-' dcr of 100,000 people of Siberia. H MEREIiH As i.l. ER Tim Ui.mpn, iff matter hiSWAVnr IS g4g4SE merely the lever by which Senator H Borah hopes to pry out of the state H department a clear definition of its H Russian policy and more particularly H the status of Boris Bakhmeteff, who .H la still the accredited Russian am- H bassador lo the United States, al- H though Kerensky government, whi h H he Is supposed to represent, has been H non existent for five years. H Senator Borah Issued his suhpocnH H In the full knowledge that a senate H committee has no power to compel H the attendance of any foreign envoy. H They are protected by diplomatic lm- H munity, and are responsible only to the H president of the Untied States. H But Borah raises the question ( H whetliei in ambassador from n c,.s WM srnment that Is admittedly non exist- H nt. has my diplomatic Immunity. The state department wis surprl-d H at the action of the Idaho senator. J Secretary of State Hughes tonight re-fused re-fused to comment on It in anv H M( )B M( ITS SK.M KXOF1 NEW YORK April 15 General WW Gregorle Semenoff. former ataman of the Siberian Cossacks, now the butt of East side hooters and catcaileri spent another day In Ludlow street Jail today, where he is held in default of bail on a slvll warrant. while crowds milled about outside. H Most of the day the general phowed no sign that the crowd's presence dls-turned dls-turned him. But he refused to exer-else. exer-else. To do so rnearft ho would have to go into the court yard, while hun-dreds hun-dreds of persons on nearby roofs it ontlnned on p :c Two I BORAH PRESSES MURDER CHARGE Idaho Senator Would Indict Semenoff for Killing U. S. Soldiers (Continued From Page One) shouted at every move he made He Efforts of his lawyers to get bOndB-men bOndB-men or to frep him on a writ of habeas corpus failed agnln Tlv gen- j r ral will have to spend Easter hunda ' In jail and his attorneys said he may have to remain there oven longer. i MURDER CHARGE LOOMS a request that charges of murder be placed u;!Hi-t General ETemenofl for the death of American soldiers In the Siberian expedition, killed by the ataman's nntl-Bolshevik forcos, was contained in a letter snt today to Be - I ntary Hughes by Cody Marsh, ad jutant attached to the New York headquarters head-quarters of the Siberian Veterans. "The men who served In France felt no more bitterly toward the kaiser than we f-Mt and still feel toward the bandit chief." wrote -Mr Marsh "We fcei that in this case, especially, the American flag should mean something more than sentiment and that charges of murder should be brought against Gregorle Semenoff Any steps that taken In this direction will a.1 least 1 have the value of tending to plat i i he blame where It hi-longs If it docs ! not belong directly to Semenoff him- |