THE FAR EAST.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 May 1920, Page 5

THE FAR EAST.

ANGLO-JAPANESE TREATY. THE RIGHTS OF CHINA. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright, Received May 23, 5.5 p.m. Washington, May 21. Advices from Peking state the Foreign Office has instructed the Chinese Minister at London and the Charge d'Affaires at Tokio to request the British and Japanese Governments to consult China in the event of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance making a disposition in regard to Chinese matters. It is understood public organisations at Shanghai and Peking addressed a request to the Chinese Government to protest against a provision in the AngloJapanese Alliance by which Britain and Japan guarantee China's integrity.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.

BOLSHEVIK TERRORISM. A SLAUGHTER OF JAPANESE. JAPS DIE BEFORE SURRENDERING. Received May 23, 5.5 p.m. Tokio, May 20. Americans who escaped from the icebound port of Nikolaevsk state the Bolsheviks took possession of the town and made prisoners of all Russian soldiers and the bourgeois, slaughtering two hundred, who were buried under the ice on the river Amur. When the Japanese commander protested, the Reds demanded tlhe disarmament of the Japanese garrison. The Japanese commander refused, and fighting commenced. The Japanese took refuge in the consulate, which caught fire. The desperate Japanese, seeing no hope of rescue, and being pledged not to surrender, deliberately piunged into the flames, crying Banzai." The victims included the Japanese consul, 'his wife, and two children. A Japanese force has been' sent to Nikolaevsk to rescue the remaining residents, but it is feared the Reds killed all.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn. Received May 23, 5.5 p.m. Honolulu, May 21. According to a despatch from Tokio, the War Office announced Japanese troops landed at Nikolaevsk on May 15th to begin operations against the Bolsheviks. It is understood Japan will begin negotiations with Russia for the creation of a "buffer" State in Siberia~Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.