SAGHALIEN CEDED
EXCHANGED FOR GUNS Washington, December 27. The Japanese Embassy has been officially advised that Russia has ceded to Japan its half of Saghalien in exchange for heavy guns for use in Europe. SEMI-OFFIOIALLY DENIED. Petrograd, December' 27. The cession of Saghalien is semi-offi-cially denied. Saghalien is a long (670 miles) and narrow (20 to ] 50' miles) island, running north and south off tho east coast of the maritime province of Siberia. In 1875 the Japanese, were compelled to cedo' the southern part to Russia in exchange for some of the Kuriles, and the whole was for a. time a great convict settlement. . But in 1905, after the Russo-Japanese War, the Japanese resumed possession of the southern half. The Japanese during the war with Russia, used a number of 11 in. guns in the siege of Port Arthur, with considerable success. These were the largest siege guns ever transported at that time, and were mounted on hoavy concrete platforms.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2344, 29 December 1914, Page 5
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160SAGHALIEN CEDED Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2344, 29 December 1914, Page 5
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