JAPAN AND RUSSIA.
WITHDRAWAL FROM
MAINLAND.
TOKYO, -lulv 10
The Foreign Office has formally an noui.ced its decision to withdraw force* from the inaiulaiid section of the province to Sakhalin, thus clearing Siberia, but Japan will continue to occupy the Russian portion of Sakhalin Island pending a settlement of the trouble following the Nikolaievek massacre last year. A Foreign Office official aeys tliat Japan will remain in occupation indefinitely awaiting negotiation*, of which the initiative must come from Moscow. Meanwhile the Japanese are exploring the Ulami for oil and doing some lest boriuy. iHouter , .)
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Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 167, 17 July 1922, Page 5
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