Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-07-16
PRESIDENT WANTS
JAPAN TO ASSIST
ALLIES IN RUSSIA
Mikado's Ambassador Is Called
to Secret Conference.
ENTENTE TO HELP CzECHS
Czecho- SIovaks Defeat Bolshev.ki at
VIadivostok and occupy Nike
Iyevsk-Two Other Towns
Captured.

Washington, July 10.-Further evil
dence that President Wilson is matur-
ing Il policy covering Intervention in
Russia to drive out the Germans was
furnished, when it was learned that
he invited Viscount Ishii5 the japanese
ambassador to the White House for a
conference on the question.
Although the utmost secrecy pre-
walls in regard to the conference, it is
known that the Russian situation was
the subject of discussion and it is
assumed in diplomatic circles that the
president laid before the ambassador
the conclusion reached at the White
House meeting last Saturday.
1t is Surmised IN some diplomatic
quarters that President Wilson re-
quested Ambassador Ishii to acquaint
his government with the fact that the
United States favors the principle of
military assistance to Russia. 1t is
believed the president also wants to
obtain from Tokyo the japanese gov
ernment'S views of the immediate mill
tary action that is practicable on the
part of Japan, including the number
of troops which might be engaged in
an expedition into Siberia, the dis
lance it might penetrate, the extent
of Chinese cooperation, and what col
laboration by the American govern
ment is desirable.
Czechs Need Quick Help.
The situation of the $4,000 CZecho-
Slovak troops in Russia, who are at
the present time holding Vladivostok,
Irkutsk and Samara, shortly will be-
come critical, it was learned on the
highest authority, unless relief is in
stantly given to them.
1t is understood that the plight of
the CZecho- Slavoks, disassociated from
the political phases of the Russian
question, was recently the subject of
study before the allied supreme war
council at Versailles, which was at
tended, among others, by the premiers
of France, England and Italy and
General Foch, and that the opinion of
the council was that unless the
Czecho- Slovaks should be rescued by
the allies they would be slaughtered.
Japan Has Large Army.
Japan is in position to act with
who already control one-half of ST.
IBERIA with a handful of soldiers, half
organized and not fully armed.
1t is believed. therefore, that Presi-
dent Wilson has decided that the pres
ent moment is propitious for carrying
into execution both projects, the relief
of the Czecho-S lavoks and the creation
of new Russian front.
Czecho-Siovaks Win City.
Shanghai. July 10.-After disarming
says dispatch from Vladivostok dat
ed July 5, the Czecho-S lovaks ad-
yanced from the city, defeated mixed
force of bolsheviki and Austrian and
German prisoners and occupied Niko-
lyevsk, naval station on the Amur
river,
kerensky's Aids Taken.
Paris, July 10.-Several prominent
members of the Kerensky cabinet were
among the alleged leaders of the revolt
murder of Count Won Mirbach, German
envoy. arrested by the bolsheviki, ac-
cording to dispatches received by Paris
newspapers. The men taken included
NJ Tseretalli, former minister of the
interior; NJ. Tchernoff, former minister
of agriculture; NJ. Skobeleff, former
minister of labor, and General Savin-
koff, former war minister Dispatches
of German origin report the receipt of
a Russian wireless communication an
nouncing that state of siege had
been declared in Moscow, but adding
that the bolsheviki were in complete
control of the situation.
Capture BoIshevik Supplies.
Tokyo. July 10. = CZecho-Slovak
troops, advancing toward Nikolayevsk
and Havarovsk, have clashed with the
Red guards, says an official statement
issued by the japanese war office. The
Czechs have been materially strength
ened by the capture of the bulk of boil
shevik provisions and munitions in ST.
IBERIA, the statement adds
Amsterdam, July 10.-CZech forces
have occupied Syzran and Mosslim,
Berlin dispatch announced.
tSyZran and Uosslim are near the
Volga river, about 300 miles southeast
of ni-Novgorod.I