The Sentinel=record., 1918-08-04
FEW THOUSAND MEN TO
 BE SENT TO RUSSIA
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 profit by it in time to deliver them | rom their present desperate difficui- | ues and their substance would some- | time be used 10 maintain foreign ar
 mics, not 10 reconstruct their own. or
 to feed their own men, women and children We are bending all our ener- gies now to the purpose the resolute
 and confident purpose of winning on
 the western front, and 1t would. in the
 Judgment of the government of tho
 united states, be most unwise to di- vide or dissipate our forces.
 | As the government of the United
 states sees the present circumstances l therefore, military action is admis-
 able in Russia new only to render such protection and help as is possible to
 the Czecho- -Sloyaks against the armed
 Austrian and German prisoners who
 are attacking them, aud to steady any efforts at self government or self de- | Tense in which the Russians may be Willing to accept assistance. Whether From Vladivostok or from MurmanSk and from Archangel, the present ob- | De employed will be to guard military | stores which may subsequently, be needed by Russian forces and to rcr- I der such aid as may be acceptable to 1 the Russians in the organization of their own self defense
 With such objectiyes in view the | government of the United States is now cooperating with the govern ments of France and Great Britain in the neighborhood of Murmansk aud | Archangel. The United States ana ! Japan are the only powers which arc ! just now in a position to act !n Si- | beria with sufficient forces to ac- complish moderate objectiyes such as | those outlined The government of the United tSates therefore proposes to the government of Japan that each of the two governments send forca
 of few thousand men to vladivostoa with the purpose of cn-oneratina a single force in the occupation Of iNladiyostok and in safeguarding, 50
 far as it may, the country to therelr
 of thewestward moving Czecho- Slow alls and the Japanese government has consented.
 ''In taking this action the govern
 ment Of the United States wishes to
 announce to the people of Russia in
 the most public and solemn manner
 that it contemplates no interference
 with the political sovereignty of Rus sia; no intervention in her internal affairs, not even in the local affairs
 of the limited areas which her miis
 tary forces may be obliged to occupy, and no impairment of her territorial integrity either now or hereafter: but that what we are about to do has as
 i.s single, and only objective. the rendering of such aid as shall be ac- cepcable to the Russian people them selves in their endeayor to regain control of their own affairs; their own territory and their own destiny. | The Japanese government, it is un-- | derstood, will issue similar assnr- | ance. i shcsc pans and purposes of tine United State government have been communicated to the governments of Grat Britain, France and Italy. and those governments have advised tho department of state that they assent to them in principle No conclusion that the government of the United States has arrived at in this omport- ant matter is intended. however, as an effort to restrict the actions or interfere with tho independent jiadg ment which we are now associated i'll the war,
 "It Is also the hope and purpose of the government of the United Stalu7 to take advantage of the earliest op- portunity to send to Siberia commIs- sion of merchants, agricultural ex- rerts, labor advisors, Red Cross rep resentatives, and agents of thes Young lMen's Christian association accus- tened to organizing the best meth ods of spreading useful informatioa and rendering educational help of :. modest kind, in order in some sys tematic way to relieve the immediate economic necessities Of the people ltbere in every way for which an vp portunity may open. The executioa of this plan will follow and will not ! be permitted to embarrass the mil itary assistance rendered to the 1 lCzecho -Sloyaks.
 'It Is the hope and exxpecration oi the government of the United states that the governments with which II .s associated, will wherever necessary. or possible. lend their active aid III the execution of these military ani economic plans.
 The text of the Japanese statement as given out here corresponds to tnsi declaration published in the official lGaze te at TosSio Friday and cabieu to this country via London.
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