Show UI U. S. S PARTY ON WAY TO REBUILD LINE LINEIN IN SIBERIA S. S Engineers Proceed to Harbin Harbin Harbin Har Har- bin Allied Control of Road Forecast By Frank H. H King Kins International News Service Staff Cor respondent r March l 3 Important i 1 conferences were had by high government officials here today looking to the final adoption thou tion of an allied policy in ill Siberia Siberia Si Si- beria particularly the part palt Japan will play In any military or diplomatic ac action action action ac- ac tion which may be taken No agreement agreement agree agree- ment was reached but nc negotiations with the entente powers anti and the na nations nations nations na- na associated with them in tho the prosecution of or the war war against the central allies aro being belnE feverishly rushed to a 0 conclusion conclusion- under conclusion under spur of the tense situation at Vladivostok and other Siberia ports port It was sal said in of official official official of- of circles Two hun hundred American en engineers members of a transportation division which left the United States a a. few months ago to al aid in the rehabilitation of tho trans-Siberian trans railway and which was held In Japan because of the governmental upheaval in Russia left Nagasaki Wednesday for Harbin the International News New's Service correspondent correspondent corre corre- I learned Destination Not Known The ultimate destination of or the Iho party part was not made macic known hut but Ii It is believed that of making history events Which nt are expected In Siberia as l a n result of ot the for looked tor allied change chan of or policy the departure of or the AmerIcan American Amer Arner- ican lean engineers Is deemed sl significant Diplomats Diplomat both hoth foreign and norI Japanese Japan Japan- ese pe se point to the fact tact that Harbin Is IR the one ono strate strategic lc center from which It would be bo pos possible to control nil all transportation systems of or Siberia Also from Harbin It would bo possible pos pan sible sibie to cut ot off Vladivostok from communication com corn with Petrograd and make possible the tho solution of the problems which confront th tho tiu allies In saving I Ithe the enormous supplies of or munitions and other war materials stored at I Vladivostok by practically isolating the big Siberian seaport May Mean Intervention It I Is said in some quarters that the dispatch of the American engineers eng is a step towards preparing the railways railways rail rail- ways of eastern Siberian for tor allied in- in and thus make possible the transportation of troops an and supplies should Japanese Chinese and American American American Amer Amer- ican actual actually occupy the SiberIan Siberian Siberian Siber Siber- ian Pacific ports as has been hh hinted ed In e tl Tokio Toldo press Some military critics even go so far tar as to suggest esl that the move of the engineers Is also designed as an aid to the thc defense pense of the Far East a against possible future German aggression eastward through h the Urals Diplomats in Danger Forel Foreign n Minister linister In the Im Imperial im- im penal diet hot yesterday ny reviewed Rm Russo Russo- I o- o Japanese relations relation He stated that diplomatic relations had not been I severed The allied envoys were departing I from Petr grad the Japanese ambassador ambassador ambassador am am- said In his last cable the foreign for tOl eign minister told the diet The allied representatives e according to the foreign minister were in persona personal per per- sona danger in Petro Petrograd dI d. d I I mal make e this report for the information information tion of tho the diet let said M. M as the developments will have serious ef effect effect ef- ef feet In the further action of the government gov go O as they awake to thA tho possibility possibility pos pos- of the extension of German power in Siberia |