Show JAPAN JArAN MAT MAl 8 BE KJ KEY TO TOI TOU U I I AID T TO R RUSSIA IA Tokio Government toBe toBe to toBe Be Allowed to Intervene Intervene Intervene Inter Inter- vene With Disinter ested sted Motive Belief By International News Service Selce PETROGRAD Mar 15 Peace Peace has been ratified From Moscow Mos cow cow comes official word that the vote was 45 to 30 The all- all Russian congress of Soviets was wa under Lenine's pacifist spell from the moment of its conven conven- ing ng Details are lacking but is said to have hae fought the ratification By International News Service WASHINGTON March 15 lv The rhe United States States' will not abandon its efforts to help Russia Tile The reported votes vos o othe of the hc Soviets congress to ratify the German peace treaty does not end the Russian stry These two facts stand out as th the only solid elements tonight in an nn eastern east cast em ern situation which i is 13 little short of ot chaos There here I Is one other clement which tonight appears to be rapidly cr It is this Japan ma may be bethe bethe bethe the agency through which the beneficent bener- bener alms of ot the United States In Ih RUs Russia mr may b be exercised But j if Japans Japan's armies advance Into Siberia it is made plain they will do doso doso doso so on an aim entirely different basis basla from the proposed propose one olle to which President Wilson Wilton ten da days 8 ago di dissented She will Intervene on the distinct understanding understanding understanding under under- standing that her action Is Js first for Cor Russia's aid ald and second for tho the al allied allied allied al- al lied cause In general Japan It k is hinted in lii w well advised quarters here will ili pre present ent to the United States a view of or the Siberian pi problem obi em calculated amply to justify President Wilson in approving tho the movement England It I Is pointed out in iii tho the public utterances of or Arthur Balfour and the generally ej expressed sentiments of or her Imer press and anel diplomats has hus al already already al- al ready In effect teet guaranteed to the United States that Japans Japan's motives will w be disinterested STAND OF ALLIES President Wilson In his dissent from tho the first Japanese plan did not rai raise e the question of or Japans Japan's relin- relin of oC the territory she proposed proposed pro pro- po posed ed to occupy So Japan will not Include an any declaration on that point In her statement In response But th the tho general acceptance by England France and Italy Hal Halor of or the time principle that Japan is now no bent on permanent conquest conquest conquest con con- quest on the time Asiatic mainland Is counted on aim to guarantee to those In America who doubt Japans Japan's motive motive- that in the fiJal settlement of peace nh all of ot the time ent entente allies will b be firm firmly aligned ned against Japanese spoliation of or Russia even If It Japan Talan herself should be bc Inclined to car carry out such a project Time Tho other three principal objections of or the president to Japanese action were the time violation of or the time sovereignty so of ot a friendly even e an allied nation and the time two facts fach that neither the im importance im- im of ot the supplies imperiled at Vladivostok and els elsewhere where nor the time Imminence of or the German menace would warrant marrant such a step Conditions have havo changed chang on these three points according to competent diplomatic opinion here tonight Inthe in the e respects our JUN i nuL Under the time terms of th the German n peace forced upon Russia at the point of or the time bayonet Russia has either cither lost Jost lt Its so erel sovereignty nt or 01 hn has become an ally o of Germany German The fhe pe peace co terms so provided provided pro pro- vided hIed for tor German Gernian poll political tI 1 and commercial commercial com corn mercial permeation of ot Russia are so 80 stringent f against t even en the time c expression of or Hu Russian glnn opinion as ns to warrant this i supposition in m many maimy minds here herc to to- to night Th Time The supposition is borno borne out b by th time the declarations of and th the tho evidence that no matter how formally Ru Russia Rusia sla accepts tho the peace it Is ig a 1 that can ne never last The Thc opinion U II even e supported ul ported b by extracts from tron th the German liberal press recently received here lere here which powerfully condemn condemn- tho time poll policy C which they thoy describe as conquest conquest con quest on tho the ta east t. t Japan accor according to indications Is JI prepared to admit that the time question of ot protecting luote supplies at Vladivostok and along time the railroad i ii is a p Incidental Inci Inch dental one omme She Sue Is further prepared to o show backed up and al almost almost al- al J- J most the entire c masS mase Jon Ion on that Germany o to to ad advance id vance ance through Russia Russi the peace penco terms Such an advance would hl constitute con con- on- on a serious political i if it not io mill mill- tar ary menace menaco both n against t l India and amid the he far tar ea east t. t Reports of ot the tho ion tion of or the tIme a released German u prisoner In n Siberia are arc multiplying her here It Is Js the he Japanese view that this mena menace e emust must not be awaited Accordingly there i is lu Indication here hr mer tonIght that when Japan does doe Inter- Inter ene it will be on a a. tc scale lc far fu mor mom merit Continued on pago laJo 2 t t I I i i JAPAN MAY MAHE BE BETO KEY TO U. U S. S TO RUSSIA L Continued from page pase 1 1 elaborate than han at first proposed It Is not beyond hope that a n considerable clement element of ot Russian people will wili declare their welcome of or such a n move In view of ot the guarantees mentioned supporting supportIng support support- ing Its friendliness The Thc state department today received a message c from Consul General Summers Summers Summers Sum Sum- mers at Moscow l telling of or the receipt of ot the presidents president's message to the tho Soviets lets and of or Its delivery deliver to the congress con con- gress cress The message did not Indicate how low it had been heen received or whether it had lad been a n factor in the vote yote of ot peace ratification reported b by the press cables tod today Tho The department is without confirmation confirmation mation of ot these press cables There is considerable erable opinion to the effect that while the reported vote of ot to 30 indicates infallibly that tho the congress will raU ratify the peace treat treaty such ratification as a matter mattel of or fact has not yet actually occurred The vote It is considered possible ma may have been the decision of ot the tho caucus There is no Indication indication in- in in the result shown of the Influence in- in fluence of the l and other factions actions violently opposed to tion ion The They are known to have been able to muster more than thirty votes OVERPLAYED HER HAND Germany is generally generall accepted to have ave overplayed her hand In Russia Such an overplay o is conceded to have been een forced b by her dire necessity for forthe forthe the he consolidation of the food provinces But Butt t Jt t is pointed out she has gained pained these hese provinces at nt the cost of being compelled constantly to extend her ml military efforts This is another factor counted as of ot value alue in Japanese intervention It will compel Germany to maintain her eastern astern forces on a plane not b by the Russian situation in itsel it- it sel self elf As to just what the Russian situation situation situa- situa tion ion is Js or will be no one here tonight will venture an opinion Officials express ex- ex press ress themselves as confident of ot only one ne factor whether factor whether the Soviets act as ashe the he president would have had them act ct This factor is that there will be ba bea baa a huge sentiment in Russia among the radicals and the conservatives never amenable to the terms of or the German peace If Jr the Japanese Intervention can be he represented to these people as a friendly move it Is the only Wa way in which the United States can fulfill the presidents president's ent's promise to come to the aid aidor or of f the distraught and beset country |