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Show , i jil r U I H President Wilson Willing Will-ing to Aid the Czechoslovaks Czecho-slovaks and Will Send a Few Thousand Yankees Yan-kees to Vladivostok. NO INTERFERENCE WITH THE PEOPLE pan Agrees to the Plan of the United 11 v - ' . ;fNvState6 and Will Send Troops; China Will Also Al-so Furnish Regiment. r WASHINGTON", Aug. 3 Official - statements by the American and Japa-": Japa-": nese governments, made public here to-: to-: night, announce that the plana for ex-3 ex-3 tending military aid to Russia in Sibe ria will be undertaken by the United States and Japan alone, with the other allied co-belligerents assenting in prin-ciple. prin-ciple. The United States and Japan will ' each send "a "few thousand men" to C Vladivostok to act as a common force o in occupying and safeguarding the city and protecting the rear of the westward j, moving Czecho-Slovak army. f- The numbers of the American troops, L'l ii. from whuro they will go and when may not bo discussed. WILL CO-OPERATE AT ARCHANGEL. While the United States aud Japan are extending aid to the Czccho-Slo-. vak.army in Siberia, the United States will, contii.ue to co-operate with the ). allies operating from Murmansk and l Archangel. To what extent and in what . nature is not announced. f'. The only present objects of the Japa-f Japa-f jose-American forces will be to give ft such aid aud protection as is possible to the Czecho-Slovak forces against the ' armed body of German and Austrian prisoners of war and to steady any ef-f. ef-f. forts at self-government and self-de- feuse iu wbicb the Russians themselves may be willing to accept assistance. : Later I he United States will send a commission of merchants, agricultural experts, labor advisers, Red Cross rep's, rep-'s, rescnlatives and agents of the I V. Jl. C. A t- STATEMENTS ISSUED J AT BOTH CAPITALS. Roth the United States and Japan, , ,v the official announcements, make the jti; most specific pledges of- the action "Rrccd upon being wholly without pe 'bought of interference with the sov-w, sov-w, ccignty of Russia or any interference whatovor in her internal affairs. lt The Japanese government at the Vi ame timo pledges itself that when the Jj- "li.'ects of the mission are accomplished ir.; '' withdraw every Japanese soldier r"d leave the sovereignty of Russian ""paired in all its phases. P agreement to which all the. allies ; "H- j f is laifcefy the result of the per-jjJSsr per-jjJSsr i-1 -i efforts of President Wilson, who t'i " at w'k almost unceasingly p55 Iv 'kS t0 tr'"t; tlu! "atiu"s together Continued on Page Tour.) LIMITED USE OF THE HIM III RUSSIA (Continued from Page One.) in the most effective plan which at the same time will convince the Russian j people that the aim was purely to help j them preserve and develop their new- j found democracy. AIM AND PURPOSE OF UNITED STATES. The statement by the government as to its purposes and aims in extending military and economic aid to Russia, Issued in the form of a 1 "statement to the press on the A merican -Japanese action ac-tion in Siberia," from the acting secretary sec-retary of state, follows: In the judgment of the government of the United States a judgment arrived ar-rived at after repeated and very searching consideration of the whole situation military intervention in Russia would be more likely to add to the present sad confusion there than to cure it, and would injure Russia Rus-sia rather than help her out of her distresses. Such military intervention interven-tion as has been most frequently proposed, even supposing it to be efficacious in its immediate object of delivering an attack upon Germany from the east, would, in its judgment, judg-ment, be more likely to turn out to be merely a method of making use of Russia than to be a method of serving her. Her people, if they profited prof-ited by it at all, could not profit by it In time to deliver them from their present desperate difficulties, and their substance would meantime be used to maintain foreign armies, not to reconstitute their own or to feed their own men, women and children. We are bending all our energies now to the purpose, the resolute and confident con-fident purpose, of winning on the western front, and it would, in the judgment of the government of the United States, be most unwise to divide di-vide or dissipate our forces. Limited Military Action. As the government of the United States sees the present circumstances, therefore, military action is admissible admis-sible in Russia now only to render such protection and help as is possible pos-sible to the Czecho-Slovaks against the armed Austrian and German prisoners pris-oners who are attacking them; and to steady any efforts at self-government or self-defense in which the Russians themselves may be willing to accept assistance. Whether from Vladivostok or from Murmansk and Archangel, the only present . object for which American troops will be employed, will be to guard military stores which may subsequently be needed by Russian forces, and to render ren-der such aid as may be acceptable to the Russians in the organization of their own self-defense. With such? objects in view, the government gov-ernment of the United States is now co-operating with the governments of France and Great Britain in the neighborhood of Murmansk and Archangel. The United States and Japan are the only powers which are just now in a position to act in Siberia Si-beria in sufficient force to accomplish accom-plish even such modest objects as those that have been outlined. The government of the United States, has, therefore, proposed to the government of Japan that each of the two governments gov-ernments send a force of a few thousand thou-sand men to Vladivostok, with the purpose of co-operating as a single force in the, occupation of Vladivostok, Vladivos-tok, and in safeguarding, so far as it may, the country to the rear of the westward-moving Czecho-Slovaks; and the Japanese government has consented. No Intel f erence. In taking this action the government govern-ment of the United States wishes to announce to the people of Russia, in the most public and solemn manner, man-ner, that it contemplates no interference inter-ference with the political sovereignty of Russia, no intervention in her internal in-ternal affairs not even in the local affairs of the limited areas which her military force may be obliged to occupy oc-cupy and no impairment of her territorial ter-ritorial integrity, either now or hereafter; here-after; but that what we are about to do has as its single and only object the rendering of such aid as shall be acceptable to the Russian people themselves In their endeavors to regain control of their own affairs, af-fairs, their own territory and their own destiny. ' The Japanese government, govern-ment, it is understood, will issue a similar assurance. t These plans and purposes of the government of the United States have been communicated to the governments govern-ments of Great Britain, France and Italy, and those governments have advised the department of state that they assent to them in principle. No conclusion that the government of the United States has arrived at in this important matter, is intended, however, as an effort to restrict the actions or interfere with the Independent Inde-pendent Judgment of the governments with which we are now associated In the war. Future Plans. It is also the hop and purpose of the government of the United States to take advantage of the earliest op-' portunity to send to Siberia a commission com-mission of merchants, agricul tural experts, labor advisers, Red Cross representatives and agents of the Young Men's Christian Association, accustomed to organizing the best methods of spreading useful Information Informa-tion and rendering educational help of a modest kind, in order in some systematic way to relieve the immediate imme-diate economic necessities of the people peo-ple there in every way for which an opportunity may open. The execution exe-cution of this plan will follow and will not be permitted to embarrass the military assistance rendered to the Czecho-Slovaks. It is the. hope and expectation of the government of the United States -that the governments with which it is associated, will, wherever necessary or possible, lend their active aid in the execution of these military and economic Dlans. |