浦潮派兵ノ宣言 (Declaration on the Dispatch of Troops to Vladivostok), Official Gazette extra

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[masthead] 官報　號外　　告示　　大正七年八月二日　金曜日　印刷局

帝國政府ハ露國竝露國人民ニ對スル舊來ノ隣誼ヲ重ンシ露國ノ速ニ秩序ヲ恢復シテ健全ナル發達ヲ遂ケムコトヲ衷心切望シテ止マサル所ナリ然ルニ近時露國ノ政情著シク混亂ニ陷リ復々外迫ヲ捍禦スルノ力ナキニ乘シ中歐諸國ハ之ニ壓迫ヲ加フルコト愈甚シク其ノ威壓遠ク極東露領ニ浸漸シテ現ニ「チエツクスローヴアツク」軍ノ東進ヲ阻碍シ其ノ軍隊中ニハ多數ノ獨墺俘虜混入シ實際ニ於テ其ノ指揮權ヲ掌握スルノ事跡顯然タルモノアリ

抑「チエツクスローヴアツク」軍ハ夙ニ建國ノ宿志ヲ抱キ終始聯合列強ト共同對敵スルモノナルカ故ニ其ノ安危ノ繫ル所延テ與國ニ影響スルコト尠シトセス是レ聯合列強及合衆國政府カ同軍ニ對シ多大ノ同情ヲ寄與スル所以ナリ今ヤ聯合列強ハ同軍カ西比利亞方面ニ於テ獨墺俘虜ノ爲著シク迫害ヲ被ムルノ報ニ接シ空シク拱手傍觀スルコト能ハス業ニ已ニ其ノ兵員ヲ浦潮ニ派遣シタリ合衆國政府モ亦同ク其ノ危急ヲ認メ帝國政府ニ提議シテ先ツ速ニ救援ノ軍隊ヲ派遣セムコトヲ以テセリ是ニ於テ帝國政府ハ合衆國政府ノ提議ニ應シテ其ノ友好ニ酬ヒ且今次ノ派兵ニ於テ聯合列強ニ對シ歩武ヲ齊フシテ履信ノ實ヲ擧クル爲速ニ軍旅ヲ整備シ先ツ之ヲ浦潮ニ發遣セムトス

敍上ノ措置ヲ取ルニ方リ帝國政府ハ一意露國及露國人民ト恆久ノ友好關係ヲ更新セムコトヲ希圖スルヲ以テ常ニ同國ノ領土保全ヲ尊重シ併セテ其ノ國內政策ニ干涉セサルノ既定主義ヲ聲明スルト共ニ所期ノ目的ヲ達成スルニ於テハ政治的又ハ軍事的ニ其ノ主權ヲ侵害スルコトナク速ニ撤兵スヘキコトヲ茲ニ宣言ス

大正七年八月二日
內閣總理大臣 伯爵寺內正毅
外務大臣 男爵後藤新平
海軍大臣 加藤友三郞
陸軍大臣 大島健一
司法大臣 法學博士松室致
文部大臣 岡田良平
遞信大臣 男爵田健治郞
農商務大臣 仲小路廉
大藏大臣 勝田主計
內務大臣 法學博士水野錬太郞

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

[masthead] Official Gazette, extra issue. Notice. Friday, 2 August, Taisho 7 [1918]. Printing Bureau.

The Imperial Government, esteeming the traditional neighbourly friendship toward the Russian state and the Russian people, earnestly and unceasingly hopes that Russia will speedily restore order and achieve sound development. Recently, however, Russia's political situation has fallen into grave confusion, and, taking advantage of her lack of strength to ward off pressure from outside, the Central European powers have increased their pressure upon her ever more severely; their influence has spread gradually far into the Russian Far East, and at present obstructs the eastward advance of the "Czechoslovak" army, and among its troops many German and Austrian prisoners of war are mixed in, and there are plain traces that in practice they hold command of it.

Now the "Czechoslovak" army has long cherished the aspiration of founding a state and has throughout fought the common enemy together with the Allied powers; its safety or danger therefore bears, in turn, not slightly on the associated nations. This is why the Allied powers and the Government of the United States extend great sympathy to that army. The Allied powers, receiving word that the army is suffering severe persecution in the Siberian region at the hands of German and Austrian prisoners of war, cannot stand idly by with folded arms, and have already dispatched their troops to Vladivostok. The Government of the United States likewise recognised its peril, and proposed to the Imperial Government that a relief force be first dispatched speedily. Whereupon the Imperial Government, in response to the proposal of the Government of the United States, in return for its friendship, and in order to keep pace with the Allied powers and make good their good faith in the present dispatch of troops, will speedily make ready a force and first send it out to Vladivostok.

In taking the above measures, the Imperial Government, single-mindedly intent on renewing lasting friendly relations with Russia and the Russian people, here declares its established principle of always respecting the territorial integrity of that country and not interfering in its domestic policy, and, once the intended objective is achieved, of withdrawing the troops promptly without infringing its sovereignty, whether politically or militarily.

Taisho 7 [1918], 2 August.
Prime Minister, Count Terauchi Masatake; Minister of Foreign Affairs, Baron Goto Shimpei; Minister of the Navy, Kato Tomosaburo; Minister of the Army, Oshima Kenichi; Minister of Justice, Doctor of Laws Matsumuro Itashi; Minister of Education, Okada Ryohei; Minister of Communications, Baron Den Kenjiro; Minister of Agriculture and Commerce, Nakashoji Ren; Minister of Finance, Katsuta Kazue; Minister of Home Affairs, Doctor of Laws Mizuno Rentaro.

Read from a 2,200-px enlargement of the page. Printed in pre-reform orthography (katakana, no punctuation, vertical columns read right to left); the Czechoslovak army's name is printed in katakana in quotation marks and its small-kana usage is reproduced as read. Some variant kanji forms are normalised to the nearest standard form in the transcription. Names in the translation are romanised.