FUTURE OF SIBERIA
JAPAN'S OFFICIAL ASSURANCES. PREPARED FOR EARLY E\ rACUATION. • Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, April 8. It ia understood that official assuranses have been received that tho Jap anese have no designs on Siberia, where they still have throe divisions on a peace footing. The Japanese are •prepared to evacuate tho territory at tho earliest possiblo date. Already they have retired from the whole of the Amur railway, leaving detachments to guard certain strategic points. The complete evacuation is hampered by tho depredations of roving Bolshevik bands, who aro damaging property and stores, cutting railways and seriously interfering with the Japanese movements. In order to secure their base the Japanese occupied Vladivostok and are now making efforts to come to terms with the Provisional Bolshevik Government with a. view to enlisting support in suppressing, marauders. Tho Bolsheviks possess great supplies ot arms atid aro secretly engaged in arming tho Koreans and encouraging the formation of the anti-Japaneso organisations there. THE TAKING OF
TOKIO, April 9.
A stato of war has been declared at Vladivostok. Tho Japanese after brisk fighting disarmed tho Russian garrison.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10561, 12 April 1920, Page 6
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