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Show AMERICAN TROOPS " 10 BE WITHDRAWN MONTH OF FEBRUARY WILL SEE ALL OUR BOYS ON THEIR WAY HOME. Men Sent to Siberia to Aid the Czechs and Protect the Siberian Railroad Have Redeemed Pledge Given to Allies. Washington. Decision to withdraw American troops from Siberia on completion com-pletion of the repatriation of the Czecho-Slovak forces next month has been reached by the American government. govern-ment. The troops were sent to Siberia in accord with an agreement between the United States, Japan and the entente to aid the Czechs and protect the Siberian Si-berian railroad, and Japan has been botiried by the United States of the cancellation of that agreement in so far as It affects the presence of an American 'military expedition. The American force numbers about 8000 men and was sent into Siberia last slimmer. Its presence has been the subject of debate in the senate and resulted in the adoption of a resolution res-olution calling upon President Wilson for a statement of the administration's policy. In reply the state department said the purpose of sending the expedition was solely to assist the Czechs and- to guard the railroad. When 'the Czechs have been removed. re-moved. 1 lie American railroad commission, commis-sion, headed by John F. Stevens, in Russia since before the fall of the former czar's government, will leave Vladivostok for home, and the American Ameri-can soldiers under Major General Graves will follow as soon as1 trans- ! ports are available. Presumably the j same ships which are to take the j Czecho-Slovaks across the Pacific will J be used. Two vessels, the President Grant and America are expected to : leave New York in a few days. ' With the departure of the Ameri- j cans, Japan will be left alone to as- sist the loyal Russians in their efforts to stem the Bolsheviki. The rapid progress made by soviet forces has been a source of apprehension in Japan, Ja-pan, and the cabinet at Tokio has been considering means of "combatting what Japanese officials regard as a serious menace. Suggestions have been made that Japan materially increase its forces of 30,000 troops in Siberia, and it has ! opened negotiations with the Ameri- can government with this in view. So j far as was learned, however, no agree- j ment has been reached. |