JAPAN AND THE BOLSHEVIKI

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 175, 13 April 1918, Page 7

JAPAN AND THE BOLSHEVIKI

MORE ABOUT THE LANDING \ :j SOVIET ATTITUDE MORE i REASONABLE Tokio, April 11. J The Soviet of the Municipality of Vladivostok, in a courteous protest ' j against the Japanese landing, promises | to do its utmost to punish the offenders whose actions led to tlio landing. A proclamation is made to the men of the danger of hostility, the town is quiet, and no trouble is. antici- ; pated. —Iteuter. - AMERICA'S ATTITUDE 1 London, April 11. Lord Robert Cecil stated that there wa's no reason to think that the Amen- . can Government disapproved ot the. ; landing oE parties-from .the British and ■ 1 Japaneso warships 'at-Vladivostok to /protect the British Consulate and Japanese subjects. The action was of purely. ..local. . ... j Cable Assn. " AMERICAN TROOPS; LANDED AT ' : VLADIVOSTOK. (Rec. April .13, 1.35 a.m.) Vancouver, April 12. ' The Americans have landed troops at .Vladivostok.—Reuter. RUSSIAN BALTIC FLEET SQUADRONS COMING TO KRON- ,, ■ STADT. .(Rec. April 12, 10.20 p.m.) petrograd, April 12. The first so.uadron of the Russian Baltic' fleet, " composed of battleships and cruisers, has arrived at Kronstadt from Helsingfors. The second squad- ' ro'n, comprising tornedq-boats and submarines, is reported off Kronstadt. The : third squadron, transports, armed nier-chaiitmc-11, and obsolete torpedo-boats, > left Helsingfors last night. The total mimber of vessels which have departr , ed is two hundred.—Renter. WHAT RUSSIA HAS LOST TO THE i GERMANS ■ ! A STAGGERING CATALOGUE. (Rec. April 12, 7.5 p.m.) -• Petrograd, April 11. ; The report of the Commissariat Com- > mittee summarises Russia's losses as ; the result of the Brest Litovsk Treaty as follows7Bo,ooo square kilometres (468 square miles) of territory. • • „ 56,000,000 inhabitants, or 32 per centum of the total, population. 221,000 kilometres of railway (roughly, 133,000 miles), or one-third of the , i total. 73 per cent, of the total production ! of iron. . j 89 per cent, of the total production of coal, and many hundreds of fac- ; tories, breweries, distilleries, and chemical worls. _ . . The territories which henceforth will bo under German rule yielded 845 milliards of roubles of revenue, and boast- - ed eighteen hundred savings Router. !