Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-08-13
u. S.-JAPAN TO
HELP SAVE RUSS
Washington and Tokyo Announce
Plan in Official State
mentS.
OTHER NATIONS 0. X. PLAN
Small Forces viii Help Allies Guard
Ports - Japan VIII Withdraw
Troops When Mission Is Ac-
conpIished.

Washington, Aug. 6.--Official state
ments by the American and Japanese
governments made here on Saturday
announce that the plans for extending
military aid to Russia In Siberia will
be undertaken by the United States
and Japan alone, with the other allied
co-belligerents asserting in principle.
The statement as to the Washington
governments purposes and aims In ex-
tending military and economic aid to
Russia, issued in the form of state
ment TO the press on the American
Japanese action In Siberia" from the
acting secretary of state, is as fol-
lows:
I'm the judgment of the government
of the United States-a judgment ar
rived at ;:fter repeated and very
searching considerations of the whole
situation-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.
"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 themsand to steady any eff
forts at government or self-de-
Tense in which the Russians them
selves may be willing to accept as
sistance.
with such objects in view the gov
eminent 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 beeR
outlined.
"The government of the United
States has therefore proposed to the
government of Japan that each of the
two governments send a force of
few thousand men to Vladivostok,
with the purpose of cooperating as a
single force in the safeguarding. so
far as it may, the country to the rear
of the westward moving Czecho-Slo-
walks, 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
STA, 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 rand:r-
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 a similar assurance.
'These plans and purposes of the
government Of the United States have
been communicated to the govern
ments of Great Britain, France and
Italy, and those governments have adj
vised the department of state that
they assent to them in principle. No
conclusion that the government of the
United States has arrived at in this
important matter Is intended, how
ever, as an effort to restrict the ac-
lions or interfere with the lndepend-
ent judgment of the governments with
which we are now associated In the
war"