JAPAN IN SIBERIA.

Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 72, 26 March 1921, Page 7

JAPAN IN SIBERIA.

I — ! TROOPS TO BE REPLACED. MAINTAINING PEACE AND ORDER. | irteeeived 1 p.m.' TOKYO. March _.>. The War Office has issued a statement jin accordance with last year's declarations that Japan has decided that troops ! will be stationed and maintained in Sugjhalien. Nikolaievsk. in Eastern Siberia, land other important districts in tbe b..pe !uf maintaining ]>caoe and order and j restoring civil administration. Russian j residents of the region have been requested to co-operate. — (A. and N.Z.I I CLAIMS ON THE SOVIET. j TOKYO. March 23. I The Japanese I'oVeigri Minister I Vis- ! count lebida) told the House of Peers ■ that Japan would be obliged to adopt I whatever a'-tion might be necessary to ! preserve her rights on the peninsula of ' Kamchatka, in north-east Siberia, if the Russian Par Eastern Republic persisted ■in tre.nsferring part of the peninsula to the Moscow Soviet Government. He sa.id j that Japan had been informed that the (transfer had "been made. Protests had been sent to the Far Eastern Governj ment at Chita containing five demands, i which bad not yet been accepted.— (A. ■and N Z. Cable.!*