RUSSIA AND JAPAN
COMING TO TERMS. CESSION OF SAGHALIEN. VANCOUVER. July 11. According to advices from Honolulu, M. Joffe, the Russian Soviet envoy at Tokiq, has tentatively agreed on behalf of his Government to give Japan the former Russian rights to the northern part of the island of Sagnalion. This large island, 570 miles long, which lies off the coast of Siberia, was officially Kussian until September, 1905, when under the Treaty of Portsmouth, at the conclusion of the Russo-Japanese War, the southern half was coded to Japan. It is rich in fur-bearing animals, and also in lignitic coal, but cereals are little cultivated. M. Joffe is confident that a formal recognition of the Russian Soviet Government is rapidly approaching, according to a cablegram received in Honolulu on Tuesday from Tokio by a local Japanese newspaper. This message declares that Japan has now accepted the official regrets of the Soviet Government for the massacre at Nikolaievsk in 1920, which involved the death of over 700 Japanese at the hands of a Russian mob. Demands for damages, it is said, have boon waived.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18928, 31 July 1923, Page 7
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