Vladivostok, Russia. Soldiers and sailors from many countries are lined up in front of the Allied Headquarters Building. The United States is represented. In the wake of the October Revolution, Vladivostok was of great military importance for the Far Eastern Republic, the Provisional Priamurye Government, and the Allied intervention, consisting of foreign troops from Japan, the United States, Canada, Czechoslovakia, and other nations. Underwood and Underwood, September, 1918.