JAPANESE IN SIBERIA.

Taihape Daily Times, 8 October 1919, Page 3

JAPANESE IN SIBERIA.

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'Phc VV.olld’sl 'l‘ok~io .e:ol'l'espnn:(lout states that a Japallese military party is seeking £0 ‘e.nn‘h-ril -Siberia. from Lake Baikal to Vladivostoek. As the result of intrigues and quarrels among difi“'el'ent llussian. factions, the Omsk (.%overnlnent 1133 been ‘compelled to‘ Ql-ant Jnpzm '.lm']ilnl;itx>(l 'r:r)m»,-n.'ssie'lls. .Ta.p2m eollt.l'ols the most valuable riglrfs of all Asia, most of which have been obtained since -the beginmng of the war. Siberia can be saved for the Rus. signs only tlxrollgh the support of Koltchak, and if the United States does not support_Kdl‘tehak, fhen it is yieldingthe Siberian field to Japanese militarists.