Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-08-04
AMERICA AND JAPAN
WILL EXTEND HELP
TO STRICKEN RUSSIA
Other Allied Cobelligerents
Have Assented to Prin-
ciple of Plan.
WILL SEND FORCES OVER
TO GUARD VLADIVOST0K
Efforts Of Czecho-Slovaks to Re-
store Order Will Re-
ceive Support.
EXPERTS TO FOLLOW LATER
Merchants, Agricultural Workers
and Rcd Cross and Y. NJ. G.. a.
Units to Assist Population.
WILL SEND FORCES OVER
TO GUARD VLADIVOSTOK
EXPERTS TO FOLLOW LATER
Inv A..octn,eh ~. /.

'if Associated ir"~-
WAsHINGToT. Alrur 3-Oneial
statements b. tho American and lap
anese governments made hero to-
night, announce that ,h- plans for
extending of military ali TO Russia
in siberia will be undertaken by the
CnlteG states and japan alone with
the other allied -beliigercnts assent
Ing IN principle The United States
and Japan will each send a few thou.
send men" 10 Viad.vostok 10 act as
common force ir occupying and safe
guarding the city and protecting the
rear of the westward moving c:ccho-
S!ovak army.
While tho United states and Jaran
arc extending aid To tho Czccho- s;lovak
army in Siberia the United States
VIII continue TO co operate win Tho
allies operating from Murmansh ann
ArchangeI. To what extent and in
what nature, Is not announced
Tn. only present objects Of tn" Jap
anese American forces will b. t. give
such aid and protection AZ is pos
sihle 10 the Czecho- -Siovak forces
against the armed body OF German
and Austrian prisoners Of war and to
steady any efforts a, snlf-Governne ent
and seIdcfcnse in which tho Russians
assistance. Later the United states
will send a commission OF merchants
agricultural experts. labor ads!cers
Red Cross representatives ard agents
Of the y. NJ. 2. A. TO organize some
wsy to meet The economic necessities
of tho stricken Russian people.
Both the United States and Japan
in the official announcements. make
the most specific pledges Of the ac'ior
aguead upon being wholly without
thought OF interference with the SOW
eseigrty OF Russia or any interfereac.
whatever in her internal affairs.
The Japanese government, at tho
sarne time. pledges itself that whcn
the objects of the mission are accom-
p!shed. IT will withdraw every Jap
auese soldier and leave the soverciGnty
OF Russia unimpaired in al! its phases.
This agreement, TO which all ;he
allies assent, is largely the result Of
tho personal efforts OF President VII
son, who has beer at work almost un-
ceasingly for weeks 70 bring the ma
tions together ir The most effective
plan which "a, the same time Will con-
vince the Russian people ;hat the aim
was purely TO help them preserve and
develop their new found democracy.
STATEMENT Is ISSUED
EXPLAINING PLANS
The statement hy the government as
to it's purposes and aims in extend
ing military and economic aid TO Rus
sia. Issued In the form of state
ment 10 the PRESS on the American
Japanese action in Siberia" from the
acting Secretary of State follows:
in the judgment Of tho government
of the United Staics-a judgment ar
rived at after repeated and very
searching considerations of the whole
si.uation--a military intervention ~
Russia would be moro likely to add L"
the present sad confusion there than
10 cure It, and would injure Russia
rather than help her out of her dis
tre3ses. Such military intervention as
has been most frequently proposed
aven supposing i TO be etficaCious An
us immediate objective of delivering
an attack upon Germany from the
east. would. in its judgment be more
,,,,e,v 10 turn out 10 be merely meth.
nd of making use Of Russia thar TO be
method of serving her. Her people
- they prcfted by it AT all. could
ot nro6t by IL in tiro to deliver taNm
f-o-n their present desperate Difficult
;as and their substance would mean
,;~a he used to maintain foreign
orr,;e. not to reconstitute their own
AZ to fsed their own men. women ana
.hndrcn. We arc bending all our en-
.reies now to the purpose, the resoi"Ie
on6 confident purpose. OF Winning Oh
the western front and 1t would, IN the
,,drment of the government ot tt'
United States, be most un"ise 70 ''-
eide or dissipate cur forces
AS the government of the United
.tates sees the present circumstances
therefore, military action IL adn'issipie
IN Russia, now only to render such
nrotection and help as is possloie. 'o
the Czecho-Slovaks against the armed
Austrian and German prisoners VINO
arc attacking them and to steady any
,rorts at self-government or self-de-
tense, in which the Russians themselves
NAV be willing to accept assistance.
whether from Vladivostok or from
murmansk and ArchanEel. the only
present object for which American
.roops will be employed will be TO
Guard military stores which may sub
seouently be needed by Russian forces
.nd to render such aid as may be ac-
ceptable to the Russiars in the organi-
cations 6f their own selfdefense.
ONLY TWO POWERS NOW
IN POSITION TO ACT
with such objects in view. the gov
ernment OF the United States is now
cooperating with the governments OF
France and Great Britain in the neigh
borhood OF Murmansk and Archangel.
The United States and Japan are the
-(Coptinaed on Seventh Pagc.)