Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-08-04
Two Nations Will Garry Out Set
Plan, With the Other Allied
Co-beIIigerentS Asserting in
Principle,
"FEW THOUSAND MEN" TO
MOVE TO VLADIVOSTOCK
Troops viii Occupy and Safe
guard City and Protect Rear
of the Westward Moving
CzeCho-SIovak Army,
lsS MORNING JOURNAL SPECIAL .rAs., w,s,,


Washington, Aug. 3.-Official state
ments by the American and Japanese
governments, made public here to-
night 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 beligerents as
senting in principle.
Ihe United States and Japan will
each send "a few thousand men" to
Nladivostok to act as a common force
in occupying and safeguarding the
city and protecting the rear of the
westward moving Czecho- -Slovak
army.
The numbers of the American
troops, from where they will go and
when may not be discussed
While the United States and japan
are extending aid to the Czecho- -Slo-
yak army in Siberia the United States
Will continue to cooperate with the
allies operating from Murmansk and
Archangel. To what extent and in
what nature is not announced.
The only present objects of the
Japanese American forces will be to
give such aid and protection as is
against the armed body of German
and Austrian prisoners of war and to
steady any efforts at self government
and self defense in which the Rus
slams themselves may be willing to
accept assistance.
U. S. Will Send a Commissio.
Later the United States will send a
commission of merchants, agricultural
eXnerts, labor advisers, Red Cross
representatives and agents of the Y.
M. c. A.
Both the United States and Japan.
in the official announcements, make
the most specific pledges of the ac-
ton agreed upon being wholly without
thought of interference with the
sovereignty of Russia or any interfer-
ence whatever in her internal affairs
The Japanese government at the
same time pledges itself that when
the objects of the mission are accom-
plished it will withdraw every Japan
ese soldier and leave the sovereignty
of Russia unimpaired in all its
phases.
The agreement to which all the al
lies assent is largely the result of the
personal for weeks to bring the ma
tons together in the most effective
plan which at the same time will
convince the Russian people that the
ann was purely to help them pre-
serve and develop their new found
democracy.
Statement OF L. S. Government.
Ine statement by the government
to the press on the American-Japan-
csc action IN Siberia from the acting
secretary of state follows:
In the judgment of the govern
ment OF the United States-a iud.-
ment arrived at after repeated a-d
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 it. and would iniure
Russia rather than helm her ont Of
her distresses. Such military inter-
vention as has been most frequently
proposed, even supposng 1t it to he
efficacious in its immediate object of
delivering an attack upon Germany
from the east. would in its Judgment,
be more likely to turn out to he mere
ly method of making use OF Russia
than to be method of serving her.
Her people, If they profited by II at
all. could not profit by it in time to
deliver them from their present des-
perate difficultits, and their substance
would meantime be used to maintain
foreign armies. not to reconstitute
their own or to feed their own men, |
women and children. We are bend
ing all our energies now to the pur-
pose, the resolute and confident pur-
pose, of winning on the western front |
and 1t would in the Judgment of the |
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