CZECHS DESERTED.
UPBRAID THE ALLIES. (Received Thursday 4.5 p.m.) ' ’ NEW YORK, Dec. 1. The correspondent Ackerman cabling from Vladlvostock points out how the Czechs have saved Siberia from German and Bolshevik domination. He says that on November 28th, .1918, official representatives of the United Service sent a message from which the Czechs concluded that American troops would bo sent to help them. Help, however, never came. The Czechs now feel that they have been deserted by the Allies. Trotsky after granting the Czechs a passage through Russia, put everything in their way to delay them. All Soviets were instructed to disarm the Czechs a*nd shoot them on sight if armed. Tunnels were ordered to be blown up to throw trains off the tracks and they were also instructed to send the men to prison camps.
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Manawatu Times, Volume XL, Issue 14096, 3 January 1919, Page 5
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