The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-07-07
PRESIDENT FAv0RS
MEASURE CALLING
FOR AID IN RUSSIA
american Marines Land
At Vladivostok to
Protect Interests.
DANIELS CONFIRMS
Entente Embassies Still
in the Dark Whether
There Will Be AL
lied Intervention.
DANIELS CONFIRMS

Washington. July s-Measures to
protect American interests IN Russia
were approved by President Wilson
this afternoon AT an important con-
ference at the White House. Follow
Ing the conclusion of the meeting
Secretary Of the Navy Daniels. who
was present confirmed the reports
chat American marines had been landed
at Niadivostok 10 protect the Amert-
can consulate at that important ST.
hertau seaport.
What other measures arc "a he taken
could not be learned Others present
8; the conference besides the presl-
G.nt and Secretary Daniels were Secre-
tary Of the State Lansing, secretary
OF War Baker, General March. chief
Of staff Of the army. and Admiral Ben
sen, chief of naval operations.
Aides Of Admiral Benson IN at
tendance at the meeting carried 80 the
executive mansion huge mans ~ Rus
e3a several mounted on heavy card =
board and others in rolls one Of the
mounted curjes showed a section ~
the siberian seacoSt near NladtvnstoS
and ccsored pius Identified tn" units *
ths American AsiatiC squadron In
those waters
Official Washington IS tonight full
of rumorz concerning Important an
nouncements To come. Attaches of the
entente ernhassfee who have been most
active in urging American approval ~
general allied military Intervention
IN washington were frankly in the
dark rs 70 the decisions n any that
were reached ~ The conference.
Although IL is conceded tina, the sit
oat4on at Etadivostok. where ( h >
Cxwehn- Stovak forces have taken pos
session and where huge stores ~ mill
tary supplies are piled w ia the most
pressing for the moment. the vital spot
Il declared 70 be tire MurnauEk. about
which neither Secretary Daniels nor
ANY Of those present at the White
House meeting Wotiid diScnss.
Daniels Ia silent.
Secretary Daniels refused either 70
affirm or DENY that American marines
and Blue Jackets have landed At kols
In the MurmRnsk region 10 assist in
the protection al the Murmsnsk rail-
way. II iE through this region allied
military experts in Washington insist
that Germany, with the aid OF Ger
manized Finland. proposed 10 drive
one of the wedges by which she means
60 cut OF western Russia from all out
side aid. The other wedge, II ia de-
ciared, she means to drive through
from the Ukraine.
Not even in American official quar-
ters IL there any disposition to mini
declaration OF war by Finland The
Finnish authorities In cooperation
with the Germans. latest reports &c
the state department say, have almost
completed An important military rail
way line from the Gulf Of Bothnia tc
the vicinity of Ken on the gulf oi
Omega. 1t is against the completion
of this project. it is understood thai
the joint efforts OF the British and
French marines landed at kola are di.
rected Completion Of the spur would
enable the Germans completely to cut
the important railway line from kola
where large supplies have been gath
cred. TO Petrogrsd.
1t Ia through kola that one of tht
movements toward the intervention
might be launched. That port, It f.
declared. IL open far into the winter
and the terrain lying between Kols
and Petrograt. marshy In most places
during the summer, is frm and easil,
traversed In winter.
Maps of this as well as Siberia wers
included In those studied at this after
Moons conference. and the fact that
both General March and Admiral Rem
son were present as well as the secre'
taries OF war and the navy led TO tht
assumption that the plans discussed
were both military and naval in char
Acter
Followers of Kerensky which Is ths
element originally responsible for ths
dethronement of czar is actively urg
ing the United States to sanction In
PREVENTION.
Semi-official dispatches to the French
embassy today telling OF the DECLARE
lions made by Kerensky TO the So.
ctalist group Of the French chamber
OF deputies. said In part;
''kerensky said that In his opinion
the military Intervention ought TO con
oist Of Japanese and American forces
I which should - Joined as soon as pos
eible by Russian forces, This interven,
tion should now be limited to eccu
plying Eastern Siberia as far as Irku
tusk. The Socialist deputy. Bedouce
having asked If the intervention wouit
be more opportur~ before or after tn,
success OF the anti Bolsheviki move
ment, Kerensky replied that IL the i'm
PREVENTION were to be made in a dem
ocratic spirit 1t was desirable TO MAKE
II ~ soon as possible. He added tina
the government which has just consti
tuted itself In Siberia Is in close com
munication with the democratic par
ties in Russia. He made II known tia
Mr.. Wilson IL very popular in Russia