POLITICAL ISSUES IN JAPAN IMPEDE INTERVENTION.
ENEMY PRISONERS BEING ARMED IN SIBERIA. Australian and N.Z. Cablo Association. TOKIO. Mar. 14. Internal politics continue to interfere with a general agreement regarding Siberian intervention. There is a prospect of the Cabinet's resignation in the near future. The public greatly desire agreement with America. LONDON. Mar. 14. In the House of Commons to-day, Lord Robert Cecil, UnderSecretary for Foreign Affairs, stated that numerous reports had been received concerning the arming of German and other enemy prisoners in Siberia. The number so armed was probably considerableAdmiralty, per Wireless. ZURICH, Mar. 14. , The German official agencies have circulated a despatch from Berlin suggesting that Germany, as protectress of small and defenceless nations, may find it necessary to take measures to protect Russia from Japan. The despatch argues that her benefaction in Courland, Esthonia, Lithuania, and Finland may bo followed by the salvation of Russia from the Asiatic peril. The whole despatch is perfidiously calculated to justify, before neutrals, Germany's further advance into Russia, in defiance of the peace treaty with Russia.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16800, 16 March 1918, Page 7
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