JAPAN.
i -r< — i • il INTERVENTION IN RUSSIA. URGED BY AMJE4 Tokio, Jtrne 15. Japan will increase her army to 25 eefrpa. A correspondent adds that the Entente Governments are urging Japanese intervention in ftussia. At a council meeting held on the subject, at whidh Allied representatives were present, M. Jules lyEstree, the Belgian Minister to Petrograd, who escaped from Russia, said there were 20,000 armed German war prisoners in Siberia. The trans-Siberian railway was now the only communication with the outside world, and this could easily be cut by the German prisoners. He saiW atmed Gerinane at every station, ostensibly allied with the Bolsheviks.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. Received June it, 1030 pjn. Tokio, June id. The newspaper Hochi urges Japan to respond to the appeal. If she hesitates, Germany will become the master of Russia, and the colored races of the world will lose their favoraMe opinion of the Japanese.—Times Service.
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Taranaki Daily News, 18 June 1918, Page 5
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