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From this position they never retreated, but Allied bungling had landed General Ganin, who is himself an able and excellent officer, in a not very dignified position. Bolderoff, as I have stated, was at the Ufa front when Koltchak assumed supreme power.
On receiving intimation of the change in policy from Admiral Koltchak, the Japanese ordered Semianoff to repudiate the Supreme Governor's authority; they gave the same instructions to Kalmakoff, who occupied a similar position on the Ussurie Railway and so placed an effective barrier between themselves, their Eastern concessions, and the Supreme Governor.
Admiral Koltchak, as Minister for War, presented the appeals to General Bolderoff, and backed them in a very determined manner.
This statement, I was told, fell like a bombshell among the conspirators at Ufa, and soon after General Bolderoff returned to Omsk. There he interviewed Koltchak as Supreme Governor, and made satisfactory statement relative to his absence.
About 9 P.M. Admiral Koltchak called at my headquarters. He wore the full dress of a Russian admiral. The admiral, who speaks fair English, informed me of the circumstances and reasons for his assumption of supreme authority in all Russia.
Further Report on Political Crisis in Russia. On November 19, in the absence of information, I sent the following letter direct to Admiral Koltchak, the Supreme Governor: OMSK, 19.11.18. 3 P.M. From Colonel Ward. To Admiral Koltchak. So far I have received no information upon the subject.
The first act of the Supreme Governor, Admiral Koltchak, was to inform the Japanese that the change in the Government involved a change in policy with regard to the advance of Japanese troops and the occupation of the railway. The Japanese protested, but the admiral stood firm.
They made him many tempting offers of help, both arms and money, but he refused them all, and they were unable to move him from the position he had taken up. A subject that led to unfortunate bickerings between Admiral Koltchak and the French was the appointment by the Allied Council of Paris of General Ganin as the Commander of the Allied and Russian Forces in Siberia.
The work has therefore to be largely done over again, either by us or by the Supreme Governor, Admiral Koltchak. Or the Allies, finding the task too great, may retire and allow this huge province, probably the wealthiest part of the world, to recede back to the barbarism of the Bolshevik.
Further, if the people of England thought this was the policy of the admiral and his friends, they would not only lose the friendly sympathy of the English people but also of America and France. Admiral Koltchak replied that at the moment he did not know the whereabouts of the prisoners, but he would make inquiries and inform me later.
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