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Show IlffipT TO fllDSTfflS . i VLADIVOSTOK. Friday, March U j (By the Associated Press.) American I troops have begun to move to strategic points on the tvanssiberian railway west of Vladivostok to aid John F. Stevens and 'his staff of American railway men in the technical operation of the railway. The first eontini;cnt is already at Harbin, wi.i'.e the second will entrain within a few davs for Chita, the farthest point west to which the Americans will be sent. It is proposed to place additional detachments de-tachments at Verkhni Udinsk. Manchurian 'station and Nikolsk. Cm the Ussuri branch American troops already are stationed sta-tioned at Spasske and Khabarovsk. Czccho-Slovak troops are guarding the j line from Irkutsk to Tcheliabinsk. Jap-, anese troops are in Siberia and also are Kuardiin,' the Chinese Eastern railway as far as Irkutsk. No announcement has yet been made on the zones which the various allies will police. It is said to bo a question fir the interallied committee in Siberia to decide. T'ne committee is waiiihg the arrival of the Chinese member of the military committee com-mittee before making a decision. There, is strong sentiment aiming- the allied representatives rep-resentatives that the Chinese should police at least half of the Chinese Eastern. |