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JAPAN.

i TROOPS FOR SIBERIA. NOT APPROVED BY MAJORITY OF DMT. Received March (J, 5.,' i p.m. Tokio, March 5. The Suyukai and Kenuki parties, which are composed, of the large majority of the Diet, have passed a resolution against the movement of Japanese troops in the Far East until the situation is more Menacing. Public opinion deprecates antagonising Russia, although it desires to check German designs. INTERVENTION SANCTIONED. \ IN MANCHURIA AND SIBERIA. Paris, .March f>. M. Piehon made a statement to the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Chamber on the diplomatic situation and Russo-Japanese negotiations. Members of.the committee afterwards refused to make precise statements, but \h it he understood that the Allies had agreed to leave to Japan the task of intervening in Manchuria and Siberia. ' JAPAN'S INTERVENTION JUSTIFIED. THE ALLIES AGREED. Received March 7, 1,5 a.m. Paris, March 5. Lo Matin states that M. Piehon, in a ! speech delivered to the Foreign Affairs Committee, said that Uolshevik propaganda was growing in .Siberia, where they were planning the plunder of jmtnitions. It becomes the Allies' dutv to prevent these falling into the enemy's hands through the Bolsheviks. Japan could legitimately act alone, but prefers to act in concert with the Allies. President Wilson agrees that such action on Japan's part would not coullict with his announced principles. There was no question of taking advantage of Russians plight in the Allies' interests, but the Germans were penetrating and must be arrested. Millions of .Russians were awaiting deliverance by Japan's intervention. It is understood that M. Piehon added that all the Allies had agreed on Japan's intervention, and that only the details remain unsettled.

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Taranaki Daily News, 7 March 1918, Page 5

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JAPAN. Taranaki Daily News, 7 March 1918, Page 5

JAPAN. Taranaki Daily News, 7 March 1918, Page 5

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