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Show i U. S. MARINES LAND IN RUSSIAN HARBOR STEPS TAKEN BY PRESIDENT WILSON TO PROTECT AMERICAN AMERI-CAN INTERESTS Situation at Vladivostok, Where the Czecho-Slovak Forces Have Taken Possession of Military Affairs, Is Most Pressing for Moment. Washington. --.Measures to protect. American interests in ilussia were approved ap-proved by President Wilson on .Inly 0 at an important conference at the While House. Following the conclusion conclu-sion of the meeting. Secretary of the Navy Daniels, who was present, continued con-tinued the reports that American marines ma-rines had been landed at Vladivostok to proiect the American consulate at that important Siberian seaport. Ol'tichil Washington is full of rumors concerning important announcements to come. Attaches of the entente em-i hussies, who have been most active in urging American approval of a general allied military intervention in Washington, Wash-ington, were frankly in the dark as to the decisions, if any, that were reached at the conference. Although it is conceded that the situation at Vladivostok, where the J Czecho-Slovak forces have taken ,pos- i session anil where huge stores of military mili-tary supplies are piled up, is the most pressing for the moment, the vital spot is declared to be the Murmansk peninsula, about which neither Secretary Secre-tary Daniels nor any of those present at the While House meeting would discuss. dis-cuss. Drive a Wedge. Secretary Daniels refused either to affirm or deny that the American marines or bluejackets have landed at Kola in the Murmansk region to assist in the protection of the Murmansk Mur-mansk railway. It is through this region, allied military experts in Washington 'insist, that Germany witli the aid of Germanized Finland, proposed pro-posed to drive one of the wedges by which she means to cut off Western Russia from all outside aid. The other wedge, it is declared, she means to drive through from the Ukraine. |