WELCOMED TO TOKIO
“RED” AMBASSADOR ARRIVES.
MANY POLICEMEN PRESENT.
TOKIO, April 24. The committee that greeted the Soviet Ambassador to Japan, -M. Victor Kopp, at Tokio station, at noon to-day, consisted largely of uniformed and plain clothes police, ostensibly detailed for his protection against possibly ardent reactionaries. These officers'carefully noted the most exuberant of the Japanese welcomers. No prominent official was present. M. Kopp made no statement, except that ho was (dad to arrive. Report's of an alleged address by M. Kopp, to Harbin Communists to the effect tiiat the treaty with Japan was “a scrap of paper,” signed mainly to bring about American recognition of the Soviet, are not credited in responsible quarters in Tokio, where they are ascribed to the inspiration of White Russians in Manchuria
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19475, 9 May 1925, Page 10
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128WELCOMED TO TOKIO Otago Daily Times, Issue 19475, 9 May 1925, Page 10
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