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Show AMERICA DECLINES 10 INVADE RUSSIA ATTITUDE OF STATE DEPARTMENT DEPART-MENT REMAINS UNCHANGED, FOLLOWING INVESTIGATIONS. Russian Embassy Had Appealed to Allies to Send an Expeditionary Force Into Russia to Repel the Germans. Washington. There has been no change in the policy of the American government in dealing with the Russian Rus-sian situation. In spite of recurring rumors that military mil-itary action in Siberia by the allies, with American support or approval, is imminent, it was learned Wednesday that no agreement has been reached on any feasible plan for positive action in regard to Russia, and consequently the attitude of the state department is just what it has been since the subject first was broached. The official view here is that this attitude must remain unchanged until there is some further development of great importance in Russia. An authoritative explanation was given after the Russian embassy had transmitted to the state department an appeal to the United States and the allies to send an expeditionary force to Russia to repel the Germans, forwarded for-warded by the central committee of the Cadet party. The committee, which speaks for the powerful Russian constitutional democratic forces, asked that such an expedition be under international in-ternational control, to guarantee the rights of Its country. Recent developments, not only in old Russia, but in the Ukraine and in Siberia, Si-beria, and a growing spirit of unrest in China and Japan, with increasing pressure in the capitals of the entente powers for some sort of concerted action, ac-tion, have not been overlooked by officials of-ficials here, and the developments of each-day are being studied with the closest attention. From the maze of contradictory reports which the cables and mails bring daily to Washington, it is difficult for the officials to arrive at an exact understanding of the situation situ-ation as a whole. It is evident that the Bolshevik government gov-ernment is now meeting with strong opposition, not only from the old conservative con-servative elements In Russia, but also from certain powerful factions just as inimical to the restoration of the empire em-pire as the most pronounced Red Russian. |