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Show IIESIC11IP3T0 TIE FOREIGNERS Vessels to Move Troops From Siberia at the Rate of 10,000 a Month WASHINGTON, Jan- S. American ships furnished by the shipping board will be used to repatriate Czecho-Slo-vak, Polish, Jugo-Slav and Rumanian troops now in Siberia, it -was announced an-nounced today at the state department. depart-ment. The first of tho vessels, the President Grant and the America, will leave New York for Vladivostok soon, where they will be due about February 10. These vessels will move about 10,-000 10,-000 of the troops and It is expected that the movement then will continue at the rato of 10,000 monthly until it is completed. The cost of America's participation in the repatriation will be taken care of out of loans made by tho United States to tho foreign governments gov-ernments vrhoso soldiers are involved. Gen. Hines to Direct. Repatriation of these troops will be under the direction of Brigadier General Gen-eral Hines, chief of the army transport trans-port service nnd will be oue of tho last big military operations of the war. The Czecho-Slovaks originally wore part of the Austrian army, but being unfriendly unfriend-ly lo tho German idea of world domination, dom-ination, deserted in a mass to the Rus sian armies early in the war. In Rus sia the were re-formed into special C.ccho-Slovak units and bore an Jm portant part of the fighting on the eastern front. The Czecho-Slovaks -withdrew eastward east-ward through Russia and Siberia with the purpose of reaching Vladivostok whence it vas proposed to send them to France to fight against Germany. They had great difficulty in effecting their withdrawal because of tho disorganization dis-organization of the country and frequent fre-quent interference by the Bolshevikl and armed German and Austrian prisoners pris-oners of war. x It was to help extricate these forces from their precarious ' position that American and other allied troops were dispatched to Siberia last summer. |