DRASTIC JAPANESE ACTION FORECASTED.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 30, Issue 17, 1 March 1918, Page 5

DRASTIC JAPANESE ACTION FORECASTED.

LONDON, Feb. 27. “The Times” forecasts immediate drastic Japanese action in Russia.

JAPAN’S HOUR TO STRIKE,

RUSSIA’S SORE PLIGHT,

PARIS Feb. 27. The “Echo de Paris’’ says it is Japan’s hour to strike. She alone is able to check Germany's Eastern penetration. She is anxious tec intervene when the signal is given. The newspapers generally express the opinion that it is time for Japan to act. The German peril in the East is too real to be ignored. “Le Temps” says that Germany’s new dream is a road from Berlin to 'okio, instead of Berlin to Baghdad. Japan understands the danger to the people of Russia and Serbia. It is no longer sufficient to police Serbia. The war must be waged there. Every day German influence is dragging the keys of Vladivostok westward.

Efrenoff, who was Minister of Justice in Kerensky’s Cabinet, addressed a moving appeal to the Allies. He says that the Russians have lost 5,000,000 killed during the war. There has been a dearth of medicines and clothing and of every kind of industrial machinery since 1914. The distress among t£e Russian people is unimaginable. The brutal question is whether Germany shall organise Russia against the Allies or the Allies organise Russia against Germany.