ABSTRACT
The city of Vladivostok had undergone a complete transformation during Kolchak's year of absence from Russia. The Russians were no less generous in providing good accommodation for the GIs. 'Fortunately, for the comfort of the troops', wrote Graves, 'they were comfortably settled before the Russian and Allied representatives in Vladivostok knew what his attitude would be towards "combating bolshevism"'. The jousting of armoured trains along the confines of the Trans-Siberian Railway was a bizarre though frequent feature of the campaign. Like all other railway travellers of that time, the Admiral reached his destination along the branch line running off the main Trans-Siberian track. The Bolsheviks had used the rail workshops under their control to custom build substantial rail-borne armoured 'battleships'. The British were appalled at the display of brutality inflicted by the Bolsheviks on their Czech prisoners. The magnitude of the Russian disaster soon became apparent from the windows of the British carriages.
