SEMENOFF'S TROUBLES.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17430, 15 April 1922, Page 12

SEMENOFF'S TROUBLES.

■ SEfUOUS CHARGES BY US. ARMY OFFICERS. Wt Cable—Press Association— »u<3 N.Z. Oabie A.u»roi»**'>u-). WJIf.HINGTON, April 12. General W. S. Graves, formerly commander of the American forces in Siberiia, appeared before the Senate Labour Committee. He declared that General Semenoff, who is under arrest in Now York, was guilty of wholesale murders. General Graves submitted the testimony of American oißrers who liadl seen trains filled with Bolshevik prisoners sent out. nnd retuiM empty. Investigation revealed great common graves, where the massacred captives wer© buried. Other evidsnoe showed that General Scmenoff's troops"t«urdeicd five American soldiers. Lieutenant.Colonel Morrow testified that General Semenoff's chief lieutenant executed men by hundreds, cutting them to pieces with 1 sabres.- Lleuten-ont-Colonel Morrow's force yielded to appeals by thousands of farmers who were menaced by General Semenoff's division; which killed and plundered indescribably.

SEMENO.PP GOES TO PltltSON.. ' April 14th, s.tf p.m..) > NEW YORK, April 12. Semenoff ■ lias. disappeared,. The Surety Company which gavo his bail bond sent a sheriff to his iyJtel.for the purpose <sf obtaining guarantees safeguarding the augmented bail, necessary owing to thci many suits being brought against him. The sheriff could not find Semenoff anywhere. "His attorneys declare they do not know his whereabouts. Thorn is a rumour that he escaped in a vessel leaving America. . - "'-Later.":. Semenoff finally turned lip, and in the absence of a bail bond he< was sent to prison. His wife; offered her jewels to secure a/bond, but tkey were not sufficient. . . • ' The SenatDrinllnvestigat.cn Committe» is continuing its hearings,.: and is recording the testimony of various witnesses ■ charging Semenoff y wth the ipost terriblß, crimes in Siberia.