Show SIBERIA 18 IA N NOW W RIPE Pf f FOR H AID AD Washington Considers How Best to Help War Department Favors Fighting in France By John Jo McHugh Stuart International News Service Staff I Correspondent I t i 1 intervention of the thc right sort President Wilson Tilson has been told Men cn on whose judgment he lie has heretofore relied have have- laid before him hima a plan whereby the allied arr armies ies are arela areto areto to la be accompanied by economic missions missions mis mis- to restore order h h- thc the country as the tue f- f march ahead It is further understood that the president nt has hat been deterred from giving giving Iv ing uis assent to these plans because of t the te e Disposition of or the state and war ep ev mt ONE FRONT URGED The state department is understood to b be bc stamping out for Cor the Lute observance of oC a punctilious procedure with re regard regard re- re gard to Russia The Tho war department If is understood to be solidly behind th the thc one oae front idea and to discourage an any suggestion that tends to wen weaken ken allied effort on the battlefields of France Those who favor or Intervention e e I remarkable support toda today from the statements of Ensign Insign Pt I once a leading ace of or the Hu Russian ian arm army He lie arrived in Washington a loda to today today to- to I da day from Vladivostok whither he fled flod d across Siberia after the defeat of General Gen Gen- I eral Cossack arm army In tho the Don country He lie declares that 1000 I officers r of oC othe the Russian n arm army amo among J I many generals are arc eagerlY eager y awaiting at Vladivostok the allied ameli al alIn aid aidIn aidIn In arms which the they say must be bc furnished furnished fur fur- their countr country before Russia be becomes becomes he- he comes a hopeless wreck of anarchy and cas easy prey pre for Cor Germany German FRANCIS CONSIDERED The attitude of or the state slate department department depart depart- ment mont is reported to be based largely larsel on considerations for Cor Ambassador Francis While he has never dealt with tho the Bolshevik government of officially officially officially of- of I as tho the American ambassador he has succeeded in influencing action I I in Russia m in man many minor ways It Is said here that In the event of Intervention not only the position but the life lite of ot Mr Francis may be at stake The Thc war department experts maintain main main- tam tain vigorously that the situation on the tho west vest front is so critical that f e every evry ry ounce of or American strength is needed there both In men and munitions mone money and supplies The advocates of ot Intervention on the other hand assert that the Siberian intervention will not draw on the fighting men needed for Cor the tho western front In all outlines of oC tho the expedition the allies aUles plan to use the single sIngo o great block of or their manpower th t now lies lles Idle the Idle the armies of oC Japan and China NOT WAR OF CONQUEST I It is recognized that Japan and Chi Chi- hina hi- hi na alone cannot carry out this Inter inter- But the plan submitted to the president Includes a declaration by byall byall byall all the allies and a guarantee to Russia Russia Russia Rus Rus- sia that the expedition Js tl for tor Russia's own good and that neither Japan nor noran an any other country in the expedition contemplates permanent aggression against Russian territory The guarantee of or the good faith of oC the expedition according to the plan submitted would consist in tho the I assignment assign assign- ment mont of ot a 0 Russian or an allied general senera I to lead ead the armies It would include competent experts speaking Russian who should go with th the arm armies lea and Inthe in the their r wake vake to restore what hat Russia craves cs above c all else order and economic economic economic eco eco- aid ald Tho The strength th of the expedition Continued o on Oil pas 3 3 1 I I I i I I SIBERIA NOW Continued from page pase 1 1 1 I would lie le in is its appeal to the local governing gov gov- O bodies Lodies it reached These local Soviets are ar represented hy by I recently out of or Rus Russia Rissia ia lo In be Bol anti-Bol- shevi 1 and Get anti anti man The They will wi I accede to an any force Coree which comes conies to tc them with wih promie and performance olan ol or oran an orderly plo program rm SISSON MAKES REPORT Herbert Sisson of or the committee on public information who returned from fromI Russia some days lays ago o. Is reported tc to I have ha almost completed a comparative report leport upon the findings o of himself himsel and tho the man many a agents of or the committee I throughout Russia No details of Sisson's Sissons Sis- Sis Sissons Sisson's Sissons Sisson's sons son's recommendations are aro available a I He has had several se conferences with wih tho the president since his return and It I Is I belee believed the time pre president will ivill wi be largely larsel guided g b by what he has liis said sold Ensign gave c a an account of Russian affairs that agrees arees with wih what I already has been reported b by men connected connected connected con con- with the American embassy at Petrograd and by bv other othel Americans In InI Russia Hussla is the son of or a n I wealthy Cossack land owner He stood b by the Russian army to the tho en end He HeI was with the Cossacks when I the they were finally overwhelmed b by the The Tile defeat of oC the Cossacks a asserts was due ue only to the ai aid of the German prisoners of war brought on from Siberia and used to organize and andI I drill rH the Red ned Guards The Tho forces which beat Kalt he says were commanded commanded com corn by two German generals There Is no such number of Germans Ger Ger- mans mamis maiS In Siberia as were recently re reported no- no 10 ported to have aided In the defeat of General Ensign I says All A Athe the Germans who could coul be ber relied r led on were summoned to Petrograd and used b by the Now ow tle they have been sent back to Germany There are ale hundreds perhaps of or Germans and amid Austrians Austrian in Siberia who will wH never go o back hack Thc They have marrIed married mar mar- ried ned Russian Hussian women and settled In the country They Ther do not want to fight for their own country a again ain Siberia is ea eagerly erly a awaiting allied the lie In Siberia aid ald The Tho The mass of people are antl ant because each euch man owns his land and nl fears the Bolshevik doctrine In lii ever every town in Siberia even en alon along th the railway the he Bolshevik I control control s 's is bitterly disputed by the tho er e grow growing ever ro ln ing social revolutionary party part In the small nall towns an and amid country districts the tue Bol- Bol sh are arc powerless In lii Vladivostok they arc arn cowed cowell There arc are more than a 1 thousand Russian Rus Ilmis- sian officers there thero Many Ian of them hel held high positions on Russia's las la's western front before borc th the collapse Thoy rIH have havo ha 1 ted fled fel across Siberia lo to Vladivostok in iii II the lie hope of allied aled Intervention Knowing th do thC they conditions in iii Siberia as S they cannot Cf un understand why allied aid uhl does Inot not hot comeIn comeIn come come- In iii parts of or Russia nu sla the same am conditions condi ions e exist as obtain in Siberia I know that If ir an a allied I 11 e expedition starts tho ho I whole Sla Slav nation nalon will wi flock noc to its Is support sup sup- port But the expedition must start stait SUP SUP-I before It Is too loo II late late tt To be successful ful in the opinion of officers gathered at nt Vladivostok this expedition llon must he be submissive It II should consist of from to I men It I should hould be well wel equipped with wih I food and amI money as well el as with munitions mu mu- mU 1 It I should have hav as one of or its is I force Corce most important adjuncts a 0 large t of or propagandists made up of oC I Russians In connection with the tho movement movEment who could coull as the movement move the lie mont ment pro progresses make known lo to people that UK Its principal purposes is to bring order ordel back to Russia Th They y should be he ab able to h promise Profuse that competent corn com holh exports experts with ad adequate ade supplies close in iii are following for this purpose cose tho th wake wak of or th Iho hi army With Ith u a I Russian nominally at tl f I Its hoid mIte iho success of or such a n movement move mote ment lent is would would be bC Instantaneous In iii Siberia mO 1 I The Tho hr masses of or UH tue people would hall bali I the lie soldiers ohler as del deliverers k I |