CZECHS FIGHT GERMANS
REFUSE AN AMNESTY. Washington August 8. Captain Huryau reporting to the Czechoslovaks National Council here, states that the Czechs defeated the Germans in the Ukraine fighting. After the Brest Lilovsk treaty was signed the Austrian Emperor offered them an amnesty, but they refused to surrender. After escaping from Ukraine they at first maintained friendly relations with tha Bolsheviks. but later were compelled to fight them. At Irkutsk thousands of Bolsheviks surrounded a Czech train, tiring machine-guns. Four hundred Czechs leaped from the tram, and put the entire Bolsheviks’ force to flight.
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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLII, Issue 11610, 9 August 1918, Page 5
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94CZECHS FIGHT GERMANS Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLII, Issue 11610, 9 August 1918, Page 5
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