New-York tribune., 1918-05-19
Alliance Against Aggres-
sion by Germany Is
Concluded
Military Assistance
Promised by Allies
U. S., Notified of Agree.
ment, Plans No Change
in Its Policies
Especial Dispatch to The Tribune

Especial Dispatch to The Tribune)
WASHINGTON, May 18.-The State
Department was advised by Minister
Reinsch, at Peking, to-day that China
and japan had concluded a defensive
alliance for mutual protection against
Germany for the duration of the war.
The text of the treaty has not been
published, and the State Department
has not been advised in more detail of
the body of the agreement. 1t is not
known whether it contemplates joint
protective action in the event of ag-
gressions by the Bolsheviki through
Siberia as WE'LL
China and Japan, it was pointed out
at the State Department, are more ex-
posed through Siberia to Germans ag-
gression and naturally feel more sem
sitive concerning the German menace
than America. The agreement, how
ever, as it is understood at the depart
in the future rather than any present
danger.
Neither the United States nor tn.
Allies, it was asserted. was consulted,
as they are not concerned, the alliance
being purely defensive one and not
contemplating any initiative against
Russia or in Siberia. but being wholly
aimed at Germany's extension of her
influence in the Far East. according to
the best information available here. 1t
was declared that there had been no
change in the attitude Of the United
States toward the question of Japanese
intervention in Siberia.
United States to Withhold Action
The United States, it was said at
the State Department, would not par
ticipate with the Entente powers in
move against the Bolsicvlk govern
ment in event the French Ambassador
to Russia was not recalled by the
French government and the Soviet au-
as threatened by Foreign Minister
Tchitcherin.
The French Minister is alleged by
the Bolsheviki to have voiced state
ments rejecting upon them and they
have demanded his withdrawal from
Russia, indicating that if he is not re-
called he will be treated as a private
person. The Allied diplomats, it has
been reported, will leave Russia if the
Bolshevik threat is executed. Secre-
tary Lansing stated that no instruc-
tions had been issued to Ambassador
Francis on the subject.
1t was asserted in Far Eastern diplo-
matte circles that the Teutonic peril
in the East was more serious than
generally known. Through the Turkish
Empire, Germany is using her power
and influence upon the Mahometan
peoples of Western and Central Asia
to establish the proposed Pan-Turanian
League, to include all Mahometan
peoples from Turkey to and crossing
the Chinese borders and to the Indian
frontiers.
Attack on India Planned
The pan-Turanian regions include be-
sides Turkey considerable part of
Southern Russia bordering upon Tur-
key; trans-Caspiania, Bokhara and
Samarkand, bordering upon Chinese
Turkestan, and including all of Turkes-
tan, and Persia and Afghanistan, the
latter two countries to furnish bases
for attacks upon, India.
1t was also believed that in the event
of the necessity arising for joint Jap
anese and Chinese operations in ST.
IBERIA General Semenoff, the Cnssack
leader, to whose standards Siberians