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Show II Ogden Doctor Says Semenoff Possessed Harem '.. neral Semenoff. now in Jail In New York City, dut to financial difficulties, diffi-culties, was nothing more than 8 i on -mon bandit who traveled with an armored train, carrying with him a harem'fn Kussiii during the r solu-tionary solu-tionary period, according to Dr R P, Mills, who served with the American Red Cross at Irkutsk. Siberia, during the revolution. Discussing" the depredations of Semenoff, Dr. !llls said yesterday that before the revolution broke out In Russia Semenoff was but a second lltntenant in the Russian army and thta after the revolution started In gathered a band of bandits about him which ho proceeded to organize into an army, making hlmelf general He paid his army by pillaging the tillages along the Trans-Siberian rall- road running from Vladivostok '1 r icrii Manchuria to Omsk Semenoff Semen-off had his headquarters at Chita Which Is DOW the capital of the Trans-Baikal Trans-Baikal government that recognizes the Soviets, and in his depredations in order to obtain food and clothing for his troops he ranged as far as Lake Baikal robbing, butchering the Inhabitants and burnlnK the villages If the least resistance were offered. He was supposed to hold a commls' slon under Kolchak and his army M it cotn posed largely of Cossacks and Burials whose facial choracterls-tics choracterls-tics show a striking resemblance to the American Indian. Dr. Mills said "With his army ranged on each side, the Trans-Siberian raiin.no trains containing American Red Crosj supplies hound foi Irkutsk were stopped stop-ped ;nd ransacked time after time I by his troops. His depredations word I well known ro Colonel Morrow, sta-' sta-' tloned at that time at VerkniU-Udinsk, VerkniU-Udinsk, the headquarters of the America Am-erica n- Semenoff lmallj became so bold in his plunging that he stopped nn ammunition train bound for the Am-erlcan Am-erlcan headquarters n nd demanded thai he he given 1 5.000 rifles for Ills t roops. "The American troops sent from Vladivostok to guard the train re-fused re-fused to deliver the rifles and the incident in-cident did not come to an end until negotiations had been carried on through Washington and betW03H there and Toklo, Japan It was com-I com-I nion talk in that section at the time 1 tii at the Japanese troops were hand In glove with Semenoff, who, how-i how-i ever was finall) forced to withdraw j n d hout the rifles. But for the interference the Amer-in Amer-in troops would have wiped out ' Semenoff and his army, it was under- stood." Dr Mills said that on several oc-caslons oc-caslons he passed Semenoff's private train that traveled with his armored train. Semenoff had two flat furs decked out as a lea garden In which he kept his harem Kornokoff. on the Amur Rhcr railroad rail-road line, was o similar bandit to Semenoff. .im0rdlng to Dr Mills Ftoth men kept the entire country through which they moved in a con-slant con-slant State of turmoil. |