Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-08-08
PHILIPPINE ARMY
WILL co TO RUSSIA
General March Announces That
$500 Will Accompany
Mission.
OFFICIALS ARE SELECTED
or-General William S. Graves
Will Command the
Expedition.

| WASHINGTON, August 7-Gnneral
March. chief of staff, today declared
the American military expedition to
Russia would be just as the President
portrayed it in his memorandum
There Will be no eastern front in
Russia" he added.
Two regiments Of regular trcons
from tho Philippines Will form the
vanguard of the expedition. General
| March said. Later they will be re-
enforced by troops from the United
States. The Philippine regiments are
now II war strength and agErcgata
probably not more than 900 ,nen.
General Marchs statement follows:
The United States has organized ar
expedition Ia Siberia The officer re-
Major General Williams S Graves. WHO
is now in command Of the Eighth ~
vision. Camp Fremont. Cn!. Th" ru-
clcus OF the American force in ST.
bciia will come from the Philippines
ard " i'll consist of the Thirty seventh
and TEirty-frst Regiments of regular
infantry. That force will be supple
mentcd by other troops sent from ,te
! United States. The purpose Of organ
ization Of the expedition mas been an
nouncrd by tn" President through the
State Department. end need not re
fer to that further. The force is rel
atively small and is not for the pur
pose OF establishing an eastern front
in Russia, bat for tho purpose set for IN
in the Presidents memorandum. and
no other"
Colonel stycr and Taggart will be in
command of the two regiments. the
general said. IIo also said he would
announce the arrival OF General Gravcs
in Nlodivostok as soon as he reaches
there.
General March was unable to corr
firm the report that American troops
haG been landed AT Kandalaska.
'Ka rda!aslsa is south of l[oia. on the
Murmnn railroad, where it torches the
Kandalak Gulf, on the White SEA-" he
said. ard the only dispatch | have
seen does not say that American troops
F:'~ere there. but thar troop>s had land
ed at ArchanGel I have seen no dis
patches anywhere that American troops
arc a. kandalaska. and, 50 far as
know, they are not there"
lie said that whenever Am nrico n
troops arrive at Murmansk and tn.
facts arc reported to the War Depart :
mcnt. he would release them for pub
lioation.
WILL SELECT COMMANDER
FOR INT ERALLIED FORCES
The question of command of the
interallicd troops in Siberia will be
settled. il WAS said informally, in much
the same manner as was the selection
of General Focn as supreme command
cr OH the west front.
In one respect, General March's state
ment Of to-day-which constituted only
n slight amplifcntion of the Prtsi-
dent's--was taken to indicate that the
campaign for allied intervention on Il
huge scale in Russia was at an end
lie made IT perfectly plain that the
President meant what he said-that
only few thousand troops were to
&C used, and that oU- intentions were
in reality designed to aid the Russian
in reality designed 10 aid the Russian
people TO obtain control OF their coun-
try.
The state Department this afternoon
was without any word or communica-
tion from Amba ssaGor Francis. al
though message had been expected.
according to Acting Secretary Polk.
The department is anxious to learn
the Est of contents OF the statement:
issued to the Russian people by AM
bassador Francis and other allied en-
voys before they left Nologda. Mr..
Polk said the department had heard
nothing from the American consul at
Archangel for nearly month.