Ogden Daily Standard | 1918-04-03 | Page 2 | Russians Want America's Help

RUSSIANS WANT AMERICA'S HELP MOSCOW, Monday April 1 (By the Associated Press.) Captain William Wil-liam S. Webster of ths American Red Cross and Captain W. L. Hicks of the British military tu'ssion, attended a meeting of the Central Siberian soviet al Irkutsk. They were assured that leas than 1200 Austrian prisoners throughout Siberia had been armed and enlisted in the Red guards, and that all these men were socialists who had renounced their Austrian citizen ship The soviet have the assurance! that no more prisoners would be arm 1 ed. and also announced its intention to' defend Siberia against the German in I vasion. The United States and Great Brit-1 aln were requested by the soviet to permit the free exportation gf manu ractured article, especially farm mu chlneiT. into Siberia throuch Arch angel and Vladivostok. The soviet of l'u ials also asked the assistance of th Rllles in checking Cossack raids Hcr the Manchurian border, saying that . - : I they were unwilling to follow the mar auders Into Chinese territory, but were quite able to defeat General Semenoff and his followers, if 1 hey were prevented pre-vented from escaping to Chinese soil. A foreign trade and finance com mi slon of nine members, who Include Nikolai Lenine and M. Radek. been appointed to frame legislation for the establishment of a state monopoly m foreign trade and generally to deal with all matters pertaining to economic econ-omic relations with the United States, Germany, the Ukraine and other coon-j coon-j tries. 00