The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-08-05
Washington and Tokyo Announce
Plan in Official State.
mentS.
OTHER NATIONS 0. K. PLAN
Small Forces VIII Help Allies Guard
Ports - Japan VIII Withdraw
Troops When Mission Is Ac-
complished.

Washington, Aug. 5.-Offlcial state
ments by the American and Japanese
governments made here announce that
the plans for extending military aid
to Russia in Siberia will be under
taken by tie United States and Japan
alone, with the other allied co-bellig-
erents asserting in principle.
The statement in full as to the
Washington governments purposes
economic aid to Russia, issued In the
fG&m of Statement to the press on
the Acknowledgements action In ST.
beria," from the acting secretary Of
state, Is as follows:
"In the judgment Of the government
Of the United States-a Judgment ar
rived at after repeated and very
searching considerations Of the whole
ituation-military Intervention In
Russia would be more likely to add to
the present sad confusion there than
to cure 1t, and would injure Russia
rather than help her out Of her dis
tresses.
Her people, If they profted by 1t at
all, could not profit by 1t In time to
deliver them from their present des-
perate difficulties, and their substance
would meantime be used to maintain
foreign armies. not to reconstitute
their own or to feed their own men,
women and children.
'"As the government Of the United
States sees the present circumstances,
therefore, military action Is admissible
In Russia now only to render such pro-
lection and help as Is possible to the
Czecho-Slovaks against the armed Aus
trian and German prisoners who are
attacking them and to steady any ef-
forts at self-government or self-de-
Tense In which the Russians them
selves may be willing to accept as
sistance."
Helping Our Allies.
with such objects In view the gov
ernment Of the United States is now
cooperating with the governments of
France and Great Britain In the neigh
borhood of Murmansk and Archangel.
The United States and japan are the
only powers which are just now in a
position to act in Siberia in sufficient
force to accomplish even such mod
est objects as those that have been
outlined.
"The government Of the United
States has threfore proposed to the
government Of Japan that each of the
two governments send force Of a
few thousand men to Vladivostok,
with the purpose Of cooperating as
single force in the occupation Of
Vladivostok and In safeguarding, so
far as it may, the country to the rear
Of the westward moving Czecho-S Slo-
vaks, 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 1t contemplates no Interference
with the political sovereignty Of Rus
sia, no Intervention In her internal af-
fairs, not even in the local affairs Of
the limited areas which her mill
tary force 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
It's single and only object the render
ing of such aid as shall be acceptable
to the Russian people themselves In
their endeavors to regain control of
their own affairs, their own territory,
and their own destiny. The Japanese
government. It Is understood, will is
sue q similar assurance.