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'REMARKABLE STORY OF |
CZECHO SLOVAK FIGHTERS
(( out iiiiH'd from I 'age ()ne »
it ater i.tl - and no i * • i • <• . e\ erv
fu ir there was disorganization and
inli>. and the Bolshevik Red
I; mils seized tin1 locomotives and
were fleeing east in panic.
“I’nder these circumstances Km <
peror Charles sent us a spe« ial envoy ,
with tin* promise that it we would j
1 disarm we would In* amnestied and
our lands would receive autonomy. We
answered that we would not negotiate
with the Austrian emperor. 1
“As we could not hold a front, we
began a retreat to the east Already *
then in agreement with the allies tour 1
army had been proclaimed a part of 1
the Czechoslovak army on the west '
ern front, and thus allied with the '
French army), it was decided to trams- '
port our army over Siberia and Amer- I
ica to France We began the difli- I
cult retreat from Kiev. The Germans
in an overwhelming force were trying >
to prevent our escape. About a hun
dred miles behind ns they seized the 1
important railroad junction at Bach
j mac. which were were obliged to pass
I in our trains on our retreat to the i
east
| "When we arrived at Bachmac the <
Germans were already waiting for i
us. There began a battle lasting four f
days, in which they were badly de -
feated. and which enabled us to get *
our trains through The commander)'
of th** German detachment offered us ! 1
a forty-eight hours' truce, which wei*
accepted, for our duty was to leave
Kkrainia; hut the truce was canceled
by the German chief commander, Kin j
j.sineen. hut too late. Our trains had
already gotten away. We lost alto j
I gether about »>»m> men in dead, wound
j **d and unaccounted for. w hile we i
buried L’.nOn Germans in only one day 1
“In this manner we escaped from|‘
, Kkrainia. Our relations with tin* Bol
sheviki were still good We refrained <
from meddling with Russian internal •
affairs and we tried to come to an j i
agreement with the Bolshevik gov- ;
ernment w ith respect to our departure J
or passage through Russia. But al h
ready signs were visible that th** Bol '
sheviki either under German influ- t
enee or because we then represented <
the only real power In Russia—would 11
try to put obstacles in our way Iti<
would have sufficed to order one of t
i ur regiments (our army was then. 1
in March, near Moscow), to take Mos
cow, and in half a day there would
have been no Bolshevik government.,*
, tor then we wore well armed, having •
.taken from the front everything we i
could carry, to prevent it from falling M
into the hands of the Germans Kaeh j i
of our regiments had 200 to floi) ma- I
|* bin** guns, and nobody in Russia, to j |
s i v nothing of Moscow, could have)
at all contemplated an attempt at op <
position. Moscow, moreover, would
have received us with open arms But
! we were determined to leave as th**
| arm of a friendly brother nation, w ith
Ian army which, in spit** of all had
j experiences. wished Russia the
'strengthening of real democracy. Al
though we could not sympathize with
j the Bolshevik government, we. as
j guests, refrained from all action
; against it. and remained absolutely
loyal to it.
“To prove indisputably our loyalty,'
we turned over to the Bolshevik!1
everything, all our arms, with the ex
ception of a few rifles, which we kept
for our. so to say. personal safety
(ten rifles for each 100 men). The
equipment we turned over to the Bol
shevik!, including arms, horses, auto
mobiles, airplanes, «*i< . was worth
■ more than l.uuo.ouo.nitu rubles, and it
* | was legally in our possession, for we
) | took it away from the (iermans. to!
whom it had been abandoned by the
fleeing Bolshevik! This transfer of
i the eqiiipmt nt was. of course, pro
eded by an agreement made between
* us and the Moscow government by
which were were guaranteed tinmo-!
{ lested passage through Siberia, to
which the government pledged to give
j s unconditional support.
“Already there were signs that the
< Iermans were beginning to be uneasy
bout our movement. Today we have
I documentary evidence of the fact that
in Mar' ll the (Iermans consult red our
„ | progress .;s a naive adventure w hich
soon would end in failure When
1 11hey saw. however, that the ’impossi
bility.' as they called it. was becoming
• reality, they began to do their best
to frustrate our efforts, and organized
an army against us As I have said,
the Bolshcviki. though not exception
all.' triendlv to us. refrained so far
from all direct action against us.
Their only desire in that respect, to
which they devoted much money, was
J to persuade our volunteers to join
heir l(»d (iuard We did print icaliy
milling to oppose it. iuit \vi* knew
hir men. Our people are too well
•ducaled polit i< ally and in every (
>11»#• i wa> to be carried awa> by the
iiethods ot LeliJlie and Trot/.kv
“More dangerous was tin work of j
lerman agents who. under the mask
d internation tlism. lound their way
nto the Soviets. In every Soviet
here w a a Herman w ho exercised a
:reat influence over all its members.
“Soon there came tin* news that the !
lerman and Magyar prisoners of war
vere organizing in Siberia and were
icing armed by the liolsheviki under
he pretense that they were going to
ight against ‘world imperialism.' We
lave proved now that tin* Hermans
.••re planning to provoke our conflict [
■ ith the liolsheviki and to destroy us |
decemeal w ith the aid of the armed j
iisonors of war.
‘Tudor stu h < ircumstam <*s wo ho
;an our pilgrimage east 1 was in the
train (there wore eighty trains
•' iisi. which was to prepare the way. j
Vo wopo determined to loavo Russia
ithont a conflict. Not w ithstamling j
ho |acl that wo kept our word, that
> o surrondorod all arms with the ex-j
option of the few necessary, our prog*
oss was himlorod and unending no
inflations had to ho repeated in every1
oat of a local Soviet. Wo woro threat
nod by machine guns, hy cannon, but
*o patiently stood it all. although the
Jolshevik Red (iuard could have been
isbanded hy a few of our volunteers,
ifter fifty seven days of such tire*
ume travel our first train arrived inJ
iadivostok. Where wo wore enthusi
stlcallv received hy tho allied units
tatlolled there
“When the C.ermans saw that we,
lot withstanding all their intrigue. |
vere nearing Vladivostok, they exer
isod i direct pressure on Lenine and
'rotzky; for tho things that were lat-j
•r committed by tho Soviets, cannot
nv further be explained away by ig-j
inrance. The trains were .stopped!
t different stations so that they final-;
v were separated by a distance of;
»\or f»n miles from one another. Pro-i
oking incidents of all kinds were the
irdor of tho day. The arming of the
icrmans and Magyar prisoners was
tegun on a large scale. One of
irders of Tchitcherin. tho Bolshevik!
oroign minister, reads: ‘Dispatch all
;orman and Magyar prisoners out of
oberia. stop tho <‘/.echo Slovaks.’
rhree members of our National Coun*
il who were sent to Moscow for an
explanation of the stopping ot our
rains, were arrested At the same
into our trains wore attacked in diff
erent stations hy the Soviet troops. I
1 . \ . . c i ■ .. .1 M
irisoners.
"I will recall the Irkutsk Incident.
)ur train about 400 men. armed with
en rifles and twenty hand grenades
vas surrounded by a few thousand
led Guards armed with machine guns
md cannon. Their commander gave
)iir men ten minutes to surrender
heir arms, or be shot According to
heir habit, ours began negotiations,
suddenly there was heard the Ger
man command. ‘Schiessen!’ and the
ted Guards began tiring at th»* train, j
)ur men jumped off the train, and in
ive minutes all the machine guns
,\ero in their possession, the Russian
Jolsheviki disarmed and all the Ger
mans and Magyars done away with.
"The Siberian government which re*
ddes in Irkutsk and which, as it ap
peared later, ordered this attack, can
hank only the intervention of the
Vmerican and French consuls that it
. as not destroyed by our rightly em
bittered volunteers.
"To what extremes our loyalty was
arried. is shown by the fact that al
!:ough perfidiously attacked, and al
bough we disarmed the Red Guard
u Irkutsk, we still began new negot
lions, with the *•* ult that we sur
i • ndered ail our arm , on the condi
tion that all tin* German and Magyar
prisoners would be disarmed and dis*
landed. and that we would be allowed
to proceed unmolested Tin* Siberian
government guaranteed us unmolested
passage, and. taught by bitter ex par*
h m e that it was dangerous to attack
i \ en unarmed ('/.eeho-Slovaks, let us
pi to V ladivostok. True, this
concerned only the trains in the vicin
ity of Irkutsk; tin* trains west of
Irkutsk were under the orders from
Moscow attacked in the same man
ner. hut always with the same result;
everywhere the Rolsheviki were dis
armed.
"The arrest of the members of our
National Council took place immed
iately before these treacherous at
tacks. Then, thousands of armed
Germans and Magyars in the vicinity
of Omsk, Krasnoyarsk and Chita, com
pHlod our army between Volga and
Irkutsk to take the Siberian adminU
t rat inti into their hands, (toward tie*
•'id of June I !'•! t e\ e|i a ( ( h!.- ' I . '
Wi were trying to enter into necdia
ions "ilh Moscow. Hut Moscow, j e
i ••nine and Trotzky. proclaimed i
murderers and began mobilization < !
, :i arm> again>t us I ruler tie e cir
cumstances our troops were foreed to
lake possession of tin* bridges over
tlie Volga
"I must mention t be lad that our
defense which, as said, wa > ii"' essi
fated by treac herous atneks and e ery
where resulted in the disarmament nl
the Itolsheviki. was jo> fully greeted
by the majority of the Russian popula
tion. Anti-Holshevikists took advan-l
tage Of the situation and overthrew
the Soviets. We did not interfere!
with their internal affairs even after!
the open conflic t. We only disarmed i
those who attacked us. to make repe-|
tition of attacks impossible
i nt* i.ermans were trying to spread
rumors that our volunteers commit
ter brutalities during the.se battles.
This in not true The facts are: Rus
sian Bolshevikists, taken by our sol
diers, were disarmed and sent home,
but the Magyars and Herman prison
ers, taken with arms in hand, were
killed. That was made known to them
Iwdorehand The Austrians hanged)
.til our wounded whom they captured I
on the Italian front, and they attacked
one of our trains of wounded in Si
beria. Four years of a struggle for
life have taught us to he on guard
We did not harm to Herman or Mag
yar prisoners who did not oppose us'
although they were our enemies; wo |
could have killed thousands and thou
sands of them, but we allowed them t
to leave Siberia in peace, if they de-j
sired to go home. When, however,
they treacherously ataeked us. they
were of necessity made harmless. We
made an official announcement that
every Herman and Magyar caught by
us with arms in hand would he given
no quarter. On the contrary we could
cite many instances of unprecedent
ed brutalities that were committed'
on our wounded by the Herman, and
especially Magyar prisoners
"In Siberia there are today some
hundred thousand Herman and Mag
var prisoners, a great number of them
armed. It is these men who offer
considerable resistance to our army
'he Russian Bolshevik! surrender at
ter the first shot
"The Bolsheviki gave a sufficient
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