These three ships belonged to a ficer of 36 vessels which had left Vladivostok in October, 1922, with tie remains of the White Army and, including women and chilver curried on board about 8,000 ull told, Admiral Streck was in command of the evacuation of Vladivostok and, by special order of General Diethrichs, the strs. Okhotsk, Zastehitnik, and Mongugs unlier the command of General Gleboft, accompanied the Admiral to Gensan, Korea, where the soldiers} and refugees dispersed to various places in the Far East. The reas General Gleboff decided to proce: to Shanghai with his Cossacks is follows:—When Comrade Joffe was sent to Tokyo as representative of the Bolshevik Government, he was) careful to ingratiate himself with Viscount Goto, Minister for Foreign Affairs, with tae result that Goreral Gleboft' got an ultimatum from the Jnphnese authorities which took the form of an offer to send all his] officers to South China, leaving the N.C.0.'s together with the rank and file in' Gensan; these men were subsequently to be returned to Via vostok under a guarantee that their lives would be spared by the Bol-|j sheviks, In the event of refusal, General Gleboff was to be given 11 days to leave Gensan with the whole of his command, together with such women and children as were on the ships. "He refused to accept the conditions, fully realizing that the men on their return to Vladivostok would be ruthlessly butchered ands after arranging the evacuation of about 4,000 refugees to various] places in China and elsewhere, he} proceeded with ihis three ships to Shanghai after he had (fortunately within the time allowed) obtained from Harbin, the services of three capraing and one engineer of the former Russian Navy to navigate When these officers Gensan, steam was up and the vessels were ready to proceed to sea, every man including the Gene, eral (who for three days and nights worked a winch) as: to get the ships under way by bunkering and feeding the furnaces. This voyage of about 1,000 miles from Korea to Shanghai must surely be considera unique one when, with the exception of the four officers from] the Russian Navy, the crews ware] entirely composed of Cossacks, who were passengers as well.
The Retreat Across Siberia General Gleboft's Cossack Brigade} of about 6,000 men, walked—from Bolshevik Russia through Siberia to Vladivostok, a distance of 5,000 Filometres.' They started from 'Omsk in November, 1919, activing Chita in April, 1920, with a force of about 2,300. Only these were left of a very gallant body of men, the rest having of wounds' or disease, principally typhus, or were killed in battle, fighting their way through the Bolsheviks.
'THe full. account of this "march reads like a thrilling romance. Por more than a month the Brigade thatched through the forests of Siberia—in one instancs it. was a
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