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Show AMERICA WILL AID JAPAN IfJ SIBERIA PRESIDENT WILSON'S PROPOSALS PROVE SATISFACTORY TO THE JAPANESE GOVERNMENT Plans Looking to Aid of Czecho-Slovaks Now Operating in Siberia, Will Be Carried out as Rapidly as Possible by the Allies. Washington. Joint aclion belweon Japan, the euleiito powers and America Ameri-ca in Siberia is assured. Japjin has found acceptable Ihe American Am-erican proposal, which primarily looks to the aid of the Czecho-Slovaks, now operating in Siberia, and after exchanges ex-changes between Tokio and Washington, Washing-ton, which have cleared up all doubtful points and removed any possiblity of future misunderstanding, a complete agreement has been reached. The plan of operation will be put into execution at once. Last week intimations were given in official quarters that the president was soon to issue a statement explaining the plans of the United States for participation partici-pation in tiie expedition to give military mili-tary aid to Russia. When, however, t lie Japanese government found it necessary nec-essary to call upon the state department depart-ment for explanation of some features of the American proposal, the statement state-ment was withheld. Presumably, now that a satisfactory understanding has been reached, the statement will be issued. Meanwhile, it is the desire of officials offi-cials that there shall be no speculation as to the character of the intervention in the press. Consequently, all that it is possible now to say is that in the beginning, nt least, the international agreement must find its expression in combined military mili-tary activity, and cable advices have recorded The gathering of small bodies of entente troops at. points in China convenient for dispatch into western Siberia. Paokuci-Ohing, the provincial governor gover-nor at Sei Lung King, has been selected select-ed to command the considerable body of Chinese, troops which has been gathered in Manchuria, and it is understood under-stood that bis force will act under the direction of the Japanese coin-niander-in-cbief. |