The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-07-12
PEACEFUL move
TO HELP RUSSIA
STILL WILSON'S.
IDEA, IS REPORT
Entente Diplomats Informed Of
Americas Plan Which Does
Not Include Sending Military
Expedition To Siberia
CzECH0SLoVACS WILL ..Sa
ASK FOR AN ARMY
Delegate From VIadivostok Coun-
Gil Now En- Route To United
States To Lay Facts of Situa
ton Before Washington
W/ASHINGTON, July 10 ~
" ASSOCIATED prcss) - An

WAS NJ ! On, july ~
" ASSOCIATED Prcssl - An
economic penetration of Russia
by business representatives and
not an armed invasion with q
military force apparently is what
the administration has decided
upon as the best and most effcc-
tive way of meeting the advance
eastward into Siberia of German
ism.
Such it is now said is the de-
termination arrived at by Presi-
dent Wilson and the cabinet at
the important session held on
Saturday, although there is as vet
II" official announcement of what
there transpired or was finally de-
cided upon The administration
has, however, fully advised the
diplomats of the Entente as to
Americas views for the best
methods of aiding Russia, and
these views have been cabled to
the various Entente capitals,
INTERNATIONAL AIMS
1t is understood that project
is shaping up which will coun-
tcract the advance of the German
influence throughout Russia and
lead to the rehabilitation Of that
country without exciting the dis
trust of the Russian people regard
ing the motives of the Entente and Of
the United States.
The original proposal to send Am
erican business men into Russia has
assumed new phase through the in
lection Of an idea to make the econ
omic commission and the armed guard
to acoompanyyslt international. I'll,
DIsAPPoINTs ENTENTE
This alleged decision of the United
States falls far short Of the Entente Is
original desires, which favored the, des-
patrh of n military expedition into ST.
beria, there to cooperate with the anti
Bolsheviki elements for the restoration
Of normal government.
10 urge the carrying out of tho mill
tarY expedition idea, the CZecholsovae
council, now administering affairs at
Nladiv OstOk aud the surrounding coun-
try, is sending one of it's members,
Colonel vladimir Iiurban, to the Uni
ted States. Colonel Iurban is now in
Toxic, on route TO America. In an in
terVicw in the Japanese capital yester-
day he stated that the Czechoslovacs
| have total force in Eastern Siberia
of eighty thousand men, of whom some
fl teen thousand are held at Vladi-
vOstUk. .r#
DEFEATING sovIETs
VladivOstok has been quiet since
June %, when the CzcchosIovaes com
Pleted their Oustng of the Bolsheyiki
element and supprcssIng Of the Red
Guard, which offered resistance In
The street fighting the Czcchoslovacs
lost twenty five men and the Red
Guarl sixty.
Shanghai despatch states that the
C2echOsloVacs have followed up their
success at VladivOstOk by advancing
westward and capturing the naval sta.
ton Of Nikolayovsk, on the Amur
River, defeating a mixed force of Boil
sheviki and released Austrian and Ger
man prisoners,
GERMANS WORRIED
An official despatch from Paris 10
the state department says that the sue
cess OF the hGzee hoslUvacs at Vladivus-
tOk and further west where they havo
cut the Trans Siberian line in num-
bor Ot places, has caused anxiety in
Germany, where the Liberal organs arc
crfticising- THE government and saving
that IN the affairs in Russia and Sibe.
ria tho German public is being kept
, deceived. - -, =.
Anxiety which has been felt in OH
cial circles here tor the safetv cf Am
bassadOr Francis AMI other Americans
at Nologda, Russia, was relieved. yes
terlaS by tho receipt of an official
cablegFan} FROM tho envoy, dated from
Nolngda on Sunday last. The ambas-
sadOr confirms the news of the assas-
sinatiOn of Count Won Mirbach, tho
G0rman ambassador, and the subse-
Quent- disorders in Moscow. This is
the first direct word from the Amer
Y lean embassy in Russia since June "a.
- W, 3. e. - .l
Can You Afford the Risk?
Vera Won pyaF aaiya6 NTH SauaRa