INTERVENTION IN RUSSIA.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVII, Issue LXXVII, 5 August 1918, Page 8

INTERVENTION IN RUSSIA.

AMERICAN MILITARY ACTIVITIES LIMITED. (Received Aug. 5, 9.15 a.m.) NEW YORK, Aug. 4. The State Department's statement said it is considered that military intervention in Russia would be more likely to augment the present confusion than afford a cure. It is admissable only to render help and protection to the Czecho-Slovaks. against Austrian and German prisoners who are attacking them, whether by Vladivostock or Murmansk and Archangel. The only present object of American troops will be to guard military stores and render aid acceptable to the Russians in organising their self-defence. The New York Washington correspondent, says that several thousand Italian and Roumanian subjects of AustroHungary, formerly prisoners of war, have joined the Czecho-Slovaks. The correspondent adds that England and France 'are sending a few hundred soldiers to Vladivostock, who will act independently of the Japanese-American force.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Association.