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PAGE FIVEHiiidutfiiinblofthn* iiMthe c••llllllshelb•. i 1A MAN WHO CAME BACK. JSuLLMMII, AND OlttJAMSKtt. * Jl*mil imIiI years ago III* Run sum (•••vti'iiuii'iil wuufed to hang• i-meiliing ,u Cutlet Ivun IgnntieiT, who Iiiiil suddenly turned Rolsbevilc mid diiinilinl in (lie eye (lie com-nmiding officer t»f the Russian naval Ireiii'ii*'- -hip. ..f whose crew ho wns .1 number. Cadet I/'unticfl, following hi' individual uprising Og;nini»fc lyranny. had slipped ovirlwurd in Philadelphia Harbour, whore tin’ training di'p wu lying, and hud been pilled as u deserter.To-day the Kussinn Government —or wlial is left of it—wunla tohang s»*in« Ihiug on Major Samuel I. Johnson. I S.A.. town Marshal of \ ladivostuek iind eironinndor of the Inteiiiutioual Military Police, who iilone arc preserving order in thin• it\. nml ruling over the only spot hi ltd-sin where recognition is accorded !• I hi sunelity ol the law. For the eoiispieuou- part Major John-..11 has played in cleaning out the had men. rounding up the worst• •1* the liberated Servian criminal 4. -.| irli'll ng the luenl profiteer- under his strong military thumb, and fori-lug uut-oii-leuvlt; «oldicr- ol’ bolf-u-do/.ru nationalities in emit blood -shed I i*i.m I heir \ndka carouses. ho ha- jii't hem nolifted that the l(us»-.-inii Military lt;n*s*. the highest military decoration granted by the itin-U Government. is to be awardedb in. with instruetioiis that it is tobe worn about the ncebf a del Ignat ielT. who jnmped his ship nt Philadelphia, and Major .Ioliiisi.il, of the Amcrieul army, pre-'iTving order here, are one and tao The trail from Philadelphia. VlndivoHtnek leads cm-crons ugh I he C iiir.l Stall’s, wfhero rislM'hlle Ifi*--inn naval .-adit .lied with a -l.tr lop in a g mill. It bitiLs into Central S-.utli A me r:i*a. where the Riis-hi-iiiles. hoi-looted from re* n i.. ree.dutioti. gaining inili-•,\pi-icneo fn the rough und president ml sm-ce -ioii. and iiig n lew sabre -curs in tho . It trunks ba.-k and forth Ii the wns|e of |!ie waters of »i|h. when between revolution were endured, as hueko-inatc ions -ailing cruft-. mid reaeb-II i wa iimi Ida ml-, where ;t il of misgoverned American* ai-1 drugging a dusky queca ier iniperious throne, us in the oilier of the reer lit-I’geunl of III.' Hawaiian lie-I kind of .• Iinllle, gninlvd the rumlil. ii s he booked the husky revolutionist • who had1-te.l I he royal rolors of I.iliuo-lan* over the iiutiu.il fortress of ..mool ll.uil. -I pur yon down Sam Johnson, Hat' just theThe new an no -:mk. beenim- I.-.• d when the veteran recruit weired h ; papers -is mi Amrrieiiu i/.-n, UII.I I.. «•.:me famuli' through-n.tw.i’; when .lului'oii rapidly mired nil tin iilhletie cliampion-p- und kri * :« special room for -lining oi hi .ups mul utedaU. in rookie i. the ranks be rose |,o oohuiel of h - regiiuenl, nnd, ii I he War fl. pavtmint urged the sing of a National G lard brigade ll.iwni.. lie wa - cnmnii'sioncd hv ! ‘den' '#■ Uni a ii- brigadt.f I us Adjurim-tienoral for the ■ri’.ory. tin In' way up. Johnson,*• lt;• under regulation conditions, smashed flu bet regular army tar-i«*it reeords. hanging up a new mark hoe the Pnited Slates, and eelebra-led his -l.bd birthd;«\ b\ winning a !'Jo-mile swimming conic-t.I He resigned Iii.-* brigadier's eorn-ini’-sion in the National C.uard hi— i muse he was barred from uetiv • erviee when war was deelurid. accepting imijoi's eouiiuis.s’it II slfteC ! polishing up his experience by going 'through mi officer's training camp in the uniform of a private. Kate j fed him to S boria ili'tend of to the Uienimn front, where he had tw'.j | In other- mid several eoUa'ns killed in the Kii'simi army to avenge, ami ai N’l.idivo'tuek his per feet know-Ihdge i f Russian language pointed i to him a- Iho logieul man to pro-.erve urdi r in I he Russian eily.Major Johnson has made good in 's.ln via. Although on ground that Is intimately a'-oebited with his fnui-ih history, where hi- :lHole once lorded ii ever mountain and steppea- if all Siberia, where!ii*lt; futli’r lui' eampuigncd a* eol-nwfcl of a Cossaek regiment, it is Sum Johns, in the Amer’ieau iu though.', word, nnd nothin.The eoilling of hi * il tele Count Nieholas I'u vlov ie|i lgiialicIT to Siberia was almost as rotnuntiethe coming ho*-* of Major Jubusou. This relative stood high at the euurt ..f the C/.nr ami wa prominent iu diplomutie eireli-M. huviug been M:n-iiter of Pekin at the time when tbo Hear was reaehtng greedily into Maueliuriii. Mongolia und Turke.s-taii. Heturning to Russia, tkie undo was ea*t into disgruec, ha'*ing Loehinvurtd the sweetheart of a. grand duke, and lie was exiled Ut Silnuin. In exile he grew in m-l!lienee until his appointment by a nndlilled Czar as Viceroy of Siberia was the logieul step.Mujor Johnson wears on Amer-ieun dtn'oration and has the right to wear military deoorutiona licstow-vd upon him for his Siberian ser-v ices by the Republic of China nnd the Republic of Cxri ho-Slnviu, hut ... decoration to which he attaches the greatest regard is the one granted 1v the Russian (lovernmettt. which be »' officially iuformed is to hung nrojiid his neck. Tliis is he-euusc the I MS' official notice Mujor Johii.mu received from the Russian tiovcrnnient was that bis neck was wanted for a different kind of hanging. 4, . ^
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Mackay Daily Mercury
Mackay, Queensland, AU
Thu, Feb 26, 1920
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