Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1918-08-08
j. s. AND JAPAN
WILL AID RUSSIA
Washington Announces Plan IN
Official Statement.
ALLIES AGREE TO PROGRAM
America and Tokyo viii Send Few
Thousand Troops to ViadiVostok
to Guard City and Help Czecho-
SIovak Army.

Washington, Aug. j.--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 allied
cobelIigerents asserting in prlnclple'
Statement From Government
The statement as TO the Washington
governments purposes and aims III eA-
tending military and economic ala 10
Russia. issued in the form Of state
ment to the press on the American
Japanese action in Siberia" from the
acting secretary Of state, is as 1ol-
lows:
"In the judgment Of the government
of the United States-a judgment ar
rived at after repeated and very
searching considerations Of the whole
Observation-Disclosures Intervention In
Russia would be more likely to add TO
the present sad confusion there than
TO cure it and would injure RUSSIA
rather than help her out Of her as
trcsses.
"As 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 TIE
CZechO-SlOvakS against the armed Aus
TRAN and German prisoners VINO are
attacking them and to steady any el-
forts at sclf-gOyernment or Self-de-
Tense in which the Russians them
selves may be willing TO accept as
sistancc
Helping Our Allies.
with such objects in view the>goV-
crnmcnt of the United States is now
cO-operating with the governments OF
France and Great Britain in the neigh
bOrhoOl Of MurmanSl and Archangel.
The United States and Japan are the
ONLY powers which are just now in a
position to act in Siberia in sufficient
force to accomplish even such MOD
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 force or
few thousand men to NladlVoStok,
With the purpose Of cooperating as
single force in the safeguarding, so
far as it may, the country to the rear
of the westward moving Czecho-SlO-
walks, and the Japanese government
has consented.
an taking this action, the govern
mcnt 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
sia. no intervention in her internal at
fairs. not even In the local affairs or
the limited areas which her mill
tarv force may be obliged to occupy,
and no Impairment of her terrltOriai
integrity either now or hereafter, but
that what we are about to do has as
It's single and only object the render
inc of such al! IS shall be az 'eptable
to The Russian people theirs lives IN
their endeavors to regain control or
lnplf OWN oIldIIS, lllG1l wv lNLl1lOAJ'
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
mcnts of Great Britain, France and
italy. and those governments have adj
Viscd the department of state that
they assent to them in principle. No
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 ac-
tons or interfere With the independ-
ent Judgment Of the governments with
which we are now associated in the
war"