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...picture of General Semenov in TIME for Aug. 23 recalled vividly an encounter with the General in March 1918. A refugee train was on its way from Petrograd to Harbin carrying a polyglot group of diplomatic officials, business men and bankers. On board were the staff of the American embassy in Russia, headed by First Secretary Bailey; the staff of the Japanese embassy, headed by Viscount Uchida; the staff of the Chinese and Brazilian ministries; and the Crown Prince of Turkestan. American civilians included part of the staffs of the Petrograd and Moscow branches of the National City Bank...
...spent an interesting but uncomfortable and. at times, hair-raising three weeks in our hegira. As we crossed Siberia we began to hear more about the elusive guerrilla commander of the White Russians, General Semenov (pronounced Sem-yon-off). At Irkutsk, while our train was delayed for a fews hours, I hired a scared izvoztchik (cabby) to drive me around the downtown part of the city. Fresh shell scars on the public buildings and a great pit in the public square containing several hundred lime-covered bodies were mute evidences of a recent raid by Semenov. Farther east our train...
...were marched into a ramshackle building. Immediately the tension was broken, for we were introduced to General Semenov in person and informed that we were not under arrest but that a banquet was being prepared for us. The building was the village hotel which had been converted into temporary headquarters for the General and his staff. Later the General posed for me while I took the enclosed picture...
There followed an excellent banquet with a surprising variety of food. When the banquet was over, General Semenov announced that every man in the room was to prick his ear and mix a drop of blood with that of the Russian or American sitting beside him. He explained that this was a traditional Rus-sian custom among friends and that it made them blood brothers. After this ceremony the General made a flowery talk proclaiming his friendship for the U. S. and the American people, and urging us as representatives of American finance to tell the U. S. Govern-ment...
...Peiping to the north last week the Soviet Embassy called for extra guards as protection from one of the most colorful characters in the Far East: onetime Cossack Ataman General Grigoriy Semenov. With the temperament and figure of an old time Greek wrestler, he has made a good living as head of a band of White Russian bravos who, according to rumor, have been doing Japan's dirty work for years in Manchukuo. In 1929 he collected $700,000 in Imperial Russian funds from the Yokohama Specie Bank. Fortnight ago he was reported responsible for a raid...