JAPAN AND SIBERIA

Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 62, 13 March 1918, Page 5

JAPAN AND SIBERIA

CHINA'S CO-OPERATION TO BE SOUGHT EARLY INTERVENTION PREDICTED (published in the times.) (Received March 13, 8.30 a.m.) ■ TIENTSIN, 12th March. Connfc Hayash.i (Japanese Ambassador in .China, has returned to Pekin from Tokio. It is imderftood'he has been fully authorised to negotiate for China's 00-openitroii with Japan in the advance on Siberia, the Allies having It is expected at Pekin that the first Japanese move will be tho despatch of troops in South Manchuria towards Harbin.

(AUSTRALIAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) , 'j '...'. LONDON, 11th March. '' The intervention of Japan continues to excite comment in the press, and it is recognised that the fixing of. a limit of action compatible with. what remains of Russia's sovereignty in Siberia presents a complex problem. The newspapers generally predict Japan's early intervention. \ . . . . TOKIO, 11th March. The main opposition to intervention is- entirely political. The Kenseikai Party fearing it. will prolong, the life of the Terauchi Cabinet, A proclamation dri the nature of an Asiatic Monroe Doctrine is foreshadowed. [Three political parties are at present to be found in the Japanese Diet. One, the Kenseikai, is headed by Viscounte Cato, Foreign Minister in (the late Okuma Cabinet. This party gained a majority at the last elections, but scandals connected with the election's arid the difficulties with China led to its resignation. Count Terauchi, who succeeded to the Premiership, hea^s no party. The party called Kokumento is really the democratic wing, holding the principle that the Government must be responsible to the majority in the Lower House. For some time it -lias 'been working in conjunction with the Kenseikai Party. The third, or Seiyukai, party has been described as "Prince Ito's political machine." Since the last change of government it has supported Count Terauchi's Cabinet.] CRISIS CON&DEREf) ACUTE (Received March 13, 10.30' p.m.) TOKIO, 12th March. It is reported that negotiations are proceeding between the Japanese and. Siberian Governments. The newspapers consider the crisis is acute.. MR. BALFOUR HAS Nd I^FdKMATICIN (beuteb's telegram.) . . . (Received. March' 13, 8.30 a.m.) '„ LONDON, 12th March; In 'the House of Commons, Mr. ißalfotlf (Minister for Foreign Affairs) stated that the Government had no information that Japanese forces had arrived in Siberia He could riot say when he wouH t>6 able to give information re-, garding the proposed Japanese intervention. ' ' , ■ PRINCE LVOFF AT PEKIN '(A'tJSTitALiAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLE /SSO'CIaItION.) > . ..,.-■ PETROGRAD, 11th March. Th'e.Smolny Institute reports that Prince Lvoff has f6rmed a Government* ill the Far East. He is now dt Pekin awaiting Japanese help to enter Vladivostok. The Pravda States that the Soviets' are hurriedly mobilising to resist the hew Government. < [Princk Lvoff is a mari of great administrative and executive capacity. He was the head of what was the strongest popular organisation m Russia, .namely, the Union of Zemstvos". This powerful body, acting in conjunction with' thes Union of Municipalities, was for more than two years the rnaan stay of the' Russian Army.] PORTION OF RAILWAY DESTROYED (PUBLISHED IN THE TIMES.)' . • (Received March 13, .8.30 a.m.} TIENTSIN, 12th .March. The Bolshevik opponents of General Samenoff .(the Cossack leader) are supplied with aeroplanesi in addition.to heavy artillery worked by Germans.

A poition of the Siberian railway has been destroyed near Keremskaya. AN ULTIMATtJM TO THE BOLSHEVIKS (Received .March' 13, 10.30 a.m.) ROTTERDAM', 12th March; j The Allied Consuls at Vladivostok have serit an nltimatum to the Bolsheviks, demanding the protection: df property and restoration of the Government existing during Kefensky's time. „«,-,,■ -i It is expected the Japanese will land, and enforce the Consul s demands,-