The Sentinel=record., 1918-08-04
WILL BE NO INTERFERENCE
 WITH RUSSIAN AFFAIRS
Force of the Two Nations is to As sist the Czecho. Slovak Troops in Combating the Armed Body of German and Austrian Prisoners. Solemn Pledges Are Given Russia.

w ashington. Aug. 3.-official state ments by the American and Japanese governments, made here tonight, an nounce that the plans for extending military aid to Russia in Siberia will be undertaken Ly the United States and Japan alone, with the other allied co-Oelligerents assenting in principle.
 The United States and Japan each will send a flew thousand" men to Vladivostok to act as common force in occupying and safeguarding the city and protecting the rear ot the westward moving Czocho-S -Sloyak army
 The numbers of the Americla troops, from where they will g1 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 i'm what nature is not announced.
 The only present objects of iheI Japanese forces will be tOI give such aid aud protection as Isl possible 10 tho Czecho-Slovak forces against the armed body of t;erm1nl and Austrian prisoners of war and 70 steady any efforts at self government and self defense in which the Russians themselves may be willing to accept assistance. a commission of merchants, agricul- tural experts, labor advisors Real Cross representatives and agents of the Y.M,C.A. to organize some way tol meet the economic necessities Of the stricken Russian people.
 Both the United States and Japan in the official announcements, make the most specific pledges Of the action agreed upon Icing wholly without thought of interference with the soy ereignty of Russia or any interfer-l ence whatever in her internal affairs.
 The Japanese government at thel same time pledges itself that when the objects of the missions are accom- plshed it will withdraw every Jap anese soldier and leave the sovereign ty Of Russia unimr aired in all it's phases.
 The agreement to which all the al- lies assent is largely the result of the personal efforts of President Wilson who has been at work almot uncea- ingly for weeks to bring the nations together in the most effective plan, which at the same time will convince the Russian people that the aim was purely to help them preserve and de yelop their new found democracy.
 The statement by the government as to it's purpose and aims in extend ing military and economic aid to Rus sia, issued in the form of a state ment to the press on the American Japanese action in Siberia from the acting secretary of state follows:
 "In the judgment of the govern ment of the United States. a Judgment arrived at after repeated and very searching considerations of the whole situation. military intervention tn Russia would more likely add to the present sad confusion there, than to cure it. and would injure Russia, rather than help her out of her dis tresses. Such military intervention as has been most frequently proposed, even supposing it to be efficacious in it's immediate object of delivering an attack upon Germany from the base would. in its judgment. be more likely to turn out to be merely method or
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