The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-08-09
j. 8. AND JAPAN
WILL AID RUSSIA
Washington Announces Plan IN
Official Statement.
ALLIES AGREE TO PROGRAM
America and Tokyo VIII Send Few
Thousand Troops to Vladivostok
to Guard City and Help Czecho-
SIoVak Army.

Washington, Aug. 5.-Oficial state
ments by the American and japanese
governments made here on SATURDAY
announce that the plans for extending
military aid to Russia in Siberia VIII
be undertaken by the United States
and Japan alone, with the other alileu
cO-belligerents asserting in principe.
Statement From Government
The statement as to the Washington
governments purposes and aims III eA-
tending military and economic ala "
Russia, issued in the form or STATE
ment to the press on the American
0anese action in Siberia" from the
q secretary of state, is as fol-
lows:
'Tn the Judgment of the government
Of the United States-a judgment ar
rived at after repeated and very
searching considerations of the Whole
Situation-military Intervention III
Russia would be more likely to ada 10
the present sad confusion there than
to cure it and would injure Russia
rather than help her out OF her dls-
tresseS.
GAS 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 VINO are
attacking them and to steady any et-
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
eminent of the United States is now
cooperating with the governments Oh
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
OOsftion to act in Siberia in sufficient
force to accomplish even such mou-
est objects as those that have been
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 a
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 che rear
of the westward moving CzechO-Slo-
walks. and the Japanese government
has consented.
'eIn 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
tarv 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
IFS single and only object the render
ing of such al ss shall be az 'eptable
to the Russian people theirs elves n
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. Nc
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 &C
lions or interfere with the independ
.ent Judgment of the governments will
which we are now associated in the
war"