After long discussion, it was finally decided to create an Allied front in Siberia together with the reactionary Russians and with the Czecho-Slovaks who already achieved a series of victories over the Red Guards of the Soviets. 5 In June, 1918, it became known in Siberia that the Czecho-Slovaks succeeded in overthrowing the Soviet power, and on June 28 the Czecho-Slovak detachments gained control in Vladivostok and the environs. The local Zemstvo government practically lost its significance, being completely suppressed by the military force. The navy and Allied army' was under the supreme command of Admiral Knight of the Asiatic fleet of the United States; Vice Admiral Kato remained a commander of the special division of the Japanese fleet; Captain Paine was in control of the British fleet; the French Colonel
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