The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-03-22
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WASHINGTON, March H. Oficiall
The chairman Of the United States
training eamp admission has present.
ed his report to the war department. II
says in part: "a - '..,,t Z
6ttSThefe are now .. no organized vice
lhtTicts existing within FIVE miles Of
any army Santonnient or naval station
where soldiers or sailors are in train
,n9, The fys-mile zone which has beer
estab ishedJ around military. camps has
slilninated twenty-five heretofore recog
bized seEregatcfk districts. with the
tedeEal and state authorities cooperat,
inn with the military, authorities 1 to
naiAtains the freedom OF these zones
srs, j. smbsrkins on I policy of con.
Iuest in Eastern Asia. gn,a.. =
l. Dhrd-Whateyer. Is done must also
he 30 open and aboyeboard and hand
led with such definite and precise as.
Surances as not to incur the .animosity
Of the Russians--who have been allies
of the Entente--or make il appear that
the Entente contemplates the same az
gressions In Eastern Russia that Ger.
"anv has undertaken in European
Russia. = -.
Great care must. be taken, in the
opinion of Entente statesmen, to keep
the skirts of the allied powers clean,
who have denounced the invasion of
the neutrality, Of, Belgium and con;
tended that Berlin deliberately plan.
ned the war as o means for conquest
and world doninat ton. Every effort
II being made 10 negative the ATTEMPT
that Germany would make TO utilize
the Japanese trobp movement into 81.
IBERIA as n bObnfeFang against the
United States aud the Entente nations
By the well:knowna sinister and subtle
methods of Berlin intrigue.
| It IL not the. intention of the En-.
'ente that German agents shall be Civ.
en- the excuse for trying to make the
Russians belieye IL Is Japan 3 purpose
to seize and hold all of Eastern 81
IBERIA, or assaillng the moral position
Of the Entente in the eyes of the
world. 4
Joint Expedition impossible
If the acknowledgement, France
Italy and the United States-were in
position to furnish troops to e0ter 81.
IBERIA shoulder 10 shoulder with the
Japanese, they would undoubtedly do
80, But this - Impossible, since IL il
their best miJitayy view that these ma.
tions should focus their strength on the
western front and : look to Japan ia
safeaiapi her own as we'll as, the
nooled Entente intarests ID the East
fThe American government wants tO
Concentrates On throwing the full force
af its military power ON the western
front. At the same time Il has to bt
borne in mind that Japan IL the only
strong military power allied with the
Entente standing between the stead
lv advancing German battle front and
Russia and the Far East and the Paci
&c across which lies the United States
Germany has not forgotten that
Japan drove Germany from her only
internationally recognized sphere of In
auenee in the Orient by capturing
Kiho.Chau and has been largely in
strumentua IN knabsiIing away Ger.
many's islands in the Pacific. Rus
STA IS collapse has placed Germany il
position, in war calculated to run
several years yet. to assume martha
control over Russia, and later TO strike
at Manchuria and ;Kiao- Ghau, as vel
as China and Japan. both Of which de
cIRred war on Russia,
From deyelopmentst here today it il
evident that these larger military as
poets of the situation are showing int
the background as secondary consider
atoms the protection of the stores au(
military supplies at Vladivostok ant
along the TrGnS'Siberian Railway.