history · 22 March 1918 · 106 years ago
The French began negotiations with the Japanese to provide ships to evacuate the Czech Legion from Vladivostok, Russia. The Japanese replied that no ships could be made immediately available, and similar requests to the British and American Governments met with a similar response. For the time being the Czechs would have to employed only in support of Ataman Semenov, the Siberian Cossack leader, or of a Japanese intervention force.
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