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Show JAPANESE PUZZLED BflllllLOF VflWKS FRDWi SIBERIA American Troops Continue Movement from Railroad Toward Vladivostok STATEMENT AWAITED FROM UNITED STATES Transport Great Northern Is Frozen In Harbor Following Polar Blizzard VLADIVOSTOK, Tuesday, Jan. 13. (By the Associated Press.) American (and allied representatives are await-' await-' ing an announcement as to the results re-sults of Japanese and American diplo-i diplo-i matic negotiations at Washington regarding re-garding Siberia, which are expected I to clear up a peculiar situation here growing out of the withdrawal of Am-' Am-' erican forces. The1 United States troops have received re-ceived orders to ovacuate Siberia, I without the issuance by the American government of a statement regarding Jits policy toward Siberia and Japan, I an agreement with whoni onAugust 19. 1918, brought the T!mencan-Japa-nesc expeditions here. Since the announcement an-nouncement January S by Major Gen- 'prnl WHUnin S flrnvps pnmmnmlpr of the American expeditionary forces in Siberia, that the war department had ordered his command to Manila, he has made no statements regarding the evacuation. Yank Troops Moving. American troops continue their movement from the railroad sectors Iowa id Vladivostok and vicinity -which remains comparatively free from political po-litical disturbances and other disor-deiv. disor-deiv. The first troop trains from Spashkoe arrived last night but the men were unable lo board the transport trans-port Great Northern because she was unable to dock owing to a bli.zard, and now is frozen in the ice at Chur-kin Chur-kin point. The Japanese claim ignorance of any change from the original Japanese-American agreement regarding the Siberian policy. The official publicity pub-licity bureau today issued to the Russian Rus-sian press the following statement: "The American military evacuation of Siberia with notice only to General Oi (Japanese commander in eastern Siberia) creates a profound impression in Tokio. The American stroke coming without any notice from the American government, from Ambassador Shide- without even a reply from Washington Washing-ton io the recent Japanese proposals regarding the Siberinn situation, is a bolt from the blue to unsuspecting Japanese who are unable to grasp the significance of tho situation." Summarizing the press comment which officials of the bureau say may be considered the people's view, a statement is issued as follows: "Single-handed opposition to the Bolshoviki Bol-shoviki in Siberia is an exceedingly heavy burden on Japan, both in military mili-tary sense and financially. However, it is unthinkable that Japan will withdraw with-draw her forces from Siberia and thus abandon the red country contiguous to her own territory. Therefore, the wisest policy seems to be to dispatch half a division of troops and reinforcing reinforc-ing guards to the important centers where the railway needs them." Admiral Gleavcs arrived here yesterday yester-day on the battleship North Dakota. One hundred and seventy-five Red Cross workers, including a hundred women, arc reported to have left Chita, four hundred miles east of Irkutsk for Vladivostok. Ernest L. Harris, tho American consul at the seat of the all-Russian all-Russian government, is on his way from Verkhnudlnsk eastward. General Semenoff, commanJer-in-chief of the all-Russian forces opposing oppos-ing tho Bolsheviki, has appointed General Gen-eral Kalmikoff as his assistant to command, com-mand, the military forces in tho Far East division. |