CLEAR AND DEFINITE POLICY WANTED

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 177, 22 April 1919, Page 5

CLEAR AND DEFINITE POLICY WANTED

SPEECH BY SIR GEORGE BUCHANAN. (Rec, April 21, 8 p.m.) London, April 17. Sir George • Buchanan, formerly British Ambassador to Russia, in a 6peech, regretted tho Allies' indisposition to grapple with the Russian problem. He did not advocate a conquest of Russia, but the adoption of a clear and definite policy indicating that we-wore whole-heart-edly with tho Russian patriots awiinst tho Bolshevists. Ho counselled the dispatch of a small volunteer force to South Russia, and tho furnishing of ample supplies of war material to Admiral Koltchak and Genoral Deniken. Russia would inevitably fall under the oontrol of' the Central Powers if . left to fcer fate—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn. ECHO OF A SIBERIAN INCIDENT WIIY 'AMERICANS DID NOT ASSIST JAPANESE. New York, April 16. The Washington correspondent; of the New York "Times" states that the War Department has received a report from Maior-General Graves, Commander of the American troops in Siberia,, stating that the reason the American forces were not allowed to assist the Japanese contingent which was annihilated on February 25, on the Habarovek front by the Russians, was that the Japanese shot down women and children. General Graves says that he did not regard as Bolsheviki the Russians against' whom the Japanese were lighting. An ofiiciul Japanese report of the incident received by the State Department shows that out of 311 Japanese engaged, 302 were killed.—Aus.-N!Z. Cable Assn. . A CONTRADICTION. (Rec. April 21, 9.35 p.m.) ■ New York, April. 20. Tho New York "Times" Washington correspondent says that.it -is officially denied that Major-General Graves's cablegrams on April 15. reported-that the American troops in Siberia were not allowed to aid the Japanese troops, who were annihilated at Harbarovsk, because th.e Japanese troops shot down women and children—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Aesn.