Word: vladivostok
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...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...
...Story spent over a year in Russia, returning to this country from Vladivostok last December. He was first sent by the Y. M. C. A. to 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...
...Political Science, since October, 1917, when he went to Russia for service with the Y. M. C. A. He was in 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...
...first move would be to save the military stores at Vladivostok, for at this port vast amounts of munitions and other war necessities which were intended for Russia have been accumulating. In all probability the Japs will do no more than push a comparatively short distance into Siberia, possibly to a point just north of Manchuria, and there set up a line of defences as a barrier against any eastward movement on the part of Germany. With the absolute lack of any stability in Russia and the consequent difficulty of moving troops, it would be physically impossible for forces...
After over three years of inactivity and only nominal participation in the war, Japan proposes a plan of co-operation with the Allies in a seizure of Russian supplies in Eastern Siberia about the sea-port of Vladivostok. Anger and disappointment in the Bolshevik attitude, and the seriousness of their complete collapse before the advancing Germans point to the immediate acceptance of the proposal. Yet from a broad point of view the desirability of such action is much to be doubted...