Americans in Siberia
Captured. . . Bolsheviki Capture Polish Army, 7 Americans, Members Red Cross. .
. Consul Sends Message
Washington, Jan. 26—No report has been received regarding the
capture by the Bolsheviki force of a group of American railroad engineers and a
party of the American Red Cross in Siberia, according to press dispatched. No
confirmation of these reports have been received either by the state department
or at the headquarters of the American Red Cross in this city.
Chita, East Siberia, Monday, Jan 19—Via. Habin, Manchuria,
Tuesday, Jan. 20, by the Associated Press—Colonel Blunt and 7 other American
engineers, Miss Ford, Captain Charette and several other members of the
American Red Cross and an entire Polish army, composed of former prisoners,
have been captured by the bolsheviki at Kiiuchinskaya, according to a garbled
telegram received from Joseph H. Ray, former American consul at Irkutsk.
The dispatch from Mr. Ray was sent from somewhere beyond
Nizniudinsk, January 14. It was somewhat garbled in transmission. Kluchinskaya
is on the trans-Siberian railway 100 miles west of Nizhniudinsk.
The Zechs are fighting a rear guard action with the Reds
near Krasnovarsk, Bolshevism is gaining in Clhita. Ernest L. Harris, former American
consul at Omsk, is still in Chita.
The British, Japanese and French missions and many members
of the American Red Cross have arrived in Habin.
The only officer in the American Army named Blount is Maj.
(Captain of Calvary) Wiilfred M. Blount, who according to the latest available
army directory, was stationed at Fort Oglethorpe, Ga.
Major Blount Stationed
in California, Report Says
Chattanooga, Tenn., Jan. 25—Major Wilfred C. Blount,
mentioned in connection with the capture of the United States engineers in
Siberia, and who was formerly stationed at Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., is no win
command of a battalion of the Eleventh Calvary at Mexicala, Cal., according to
friends here. The latest army record shows two other Colonels Blunt, both of
them retired.
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