1918 which provided a rallying point for the moderates in Siberia. A new Siberian Army was organized and had notable success in its engagements with the five Bolshevist Armies which were located in various cities along the railway. In the early months of 1919 the Siberian Army was again on the move and the country was stabilized enough that the Allies troops began to return to their homelands.

As of March 19, 1919, the Allies with the exception of the Russians, numbered: Czecho—Slovaks, 55,000 ; Poles, 12,000 ; Siberians, 4,000 ; Rumanians, 4,000 ; Italians, 2,000 ; British, 1,600.; French, 760 ; Japanese, 28,000 (half the Japanese force had then been withdrawn) ; Americans, 7,500 ; Canadians, 4,000. Thus ended the Allied intervention in Siberia, having achieved its goals of providing a safe outlet for the Czech-Slovak forces, protecting the vast stores of military goods in Vladivostok from the enemy (the Bolsheviks and Germany), and providing a stabilizing influence for the people of Siberia.

In the north of Russia at Archangel and Murmansk on August 1, 1918, the citizens of these cities who had rebelled against the Bolshevists and their German allies, welcomed a British naval group which supported their aims. Into these starving communities came food and other supplies which enabled the Allies to feed a halfa million people until the following summer. The Allies had landed between three and four million tons of munitions and other stores at Archangel up to 1917 and there was considerable concern about the position the Government of Finland might take in interfering

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