Word: slovaks
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Czecho-Slovak Mission Here...
Langdon Warner '03 will lecture at 8.15 Friday evening, in Jordan Hall, on the subject: "The Czecho-Slovak Progress Across Siberia." He was sent by the government to investigate conditions in Siberia at first-hand, and for eight months, beginning in the fall of 1917, he studied conditions along the Trans-Siberian Railway from Vladivostock to Simau in European Russia; meeting in this way, Bolsheviki, representatives of the Siberian Government, and officers of the Czecho-Slovak Army...
...Story spent 11 months in Russia during the revolutions of 1917 and 1918. In April, 1918 he was sent to Vladivostok, where he assumed the direction of the Y. M. C. A. work for the allied armies and Czecho-Slovak troops throughout the whole of Siberia. He left Vladivostok for the United States last December...
...Moscow, where he witnessed the revolution of October, 1917. The following April he was appointed to be Director of the Association work throughout the whole of Siberia, and as such he extended the services of the Y. M. C. A. to the Czecho-Slovak and Allied Armies in that country...
...Moscow and Samara during the October revolution, and in April, 1918, he crossed Siberia to assume the direction of the Association work in that country with headquarters at Vladivostok. He was responsible for the extension of the Y. M. C. A. work among the Czecho-Slovak troops and allied armies throughout the whole of Siberia, until December, when he was relieved and left Vladivostok for the United States...