JAPAN MUST SEND ARMY.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14689, 22 August 1918, Page 7

JAPAN MUST SEND ARMY.

LONDON,. July 11. . Dr. Saku Takahashi , professor of international buy at Tokio University, arguing m ex-Premier Okuriia's now magazine Talkwan .for Japanese intervention m Siberia, said : — "Japan's defeat of Russia exposed Russia's weakness especially to the Kaiser ;. hence Japan probably is responsible for Russia's : collapse, and it is Japan's duty Ho save her. "l think President -Wilson erred m .placing Bolshcviki professions on a plane cbpiparable'- with the democracy of thei United States. -.. "When we think of the danger to Siberia which threatens the future of, Japaii, a danger from a nation far 'more efficient and more to bft - dreaded than cVei" was Russia m tho old regime, it becomes our duty to intervene m Siberia." * 'The writer says ■ th© salvation of Siberia should be Carried out by sup'plyirig- the people with." necessarjes and by conlertfng- th© njeana 1 of transportation for men and material. To put these mea sures • jnto : eff fiot Japan must send an army strong enough to gain the confidence of tb.ei'antirßolaheviki and to protect the men, material and railways. The i professor proposes to make •Siberia a hjjftVir State m order to coun-ter-attack tterman penetration m the Far East. It would be populated by the Russian Bourgeoise now m Siberia, by Russian refugees of that class from Russia, Japan and America, and by Slavs dc-siring to escape from the oppression of the Central Powers."