few thousand" Japanese, "with the purpose of co-operating as a
'sin;gle'force in the occupation of Vladivostok, and in safeguarding, so. far as it may, the country to.the rear of the westward-moving -*Deaf:Ito-Slovaks." Militaey intervention in Russia must, in the President's opinion, be limited to measures designed to help the Ciecho-Slovaks, and "to steady' any efforts at self-government or self-defence in which the Russians themselves may be willing to aceept assistance, whether from Vladivostok or from Murmansk and Archangel "—where an Allied force landed on Friday week. America's sole object is to help the Russian people "to regent: control of their own affairs, their own territory, and their own destiny." The 'Presi- dent proposes to send to Siberia a *Ceniteifieinti of merchants, agricultural experts, labour advisers, -and Red Cross and Y.M.C.A. representatives, to " relieve the immediaterteceersitiett Of the people." It is an Admirable and thoroughly practical scheme, for: Russia needs economic as well as military assistance.
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