JAPAN AND RUSSIA.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 11770, 1 March 1919, Page 6

JAPAN AND RUSSIA.

CRUSHING .BOLSHEVISM.

INTERVENTION SUGGESTED. London, February 11. The Times correspondent at Omsk states that as the result ;pf the Allies’ dilatoriaess in regard to“ Russia military and commercial circles in Omsk are carrying on propaganda urging an arrangement under which Japan alone would crush tbs Bolsheviks, and restore the monarchy, in return for special privileges in Siberia and North Manchuria, and the control cf the railway to the Urals. It is admitted that the project involves serious sacrifices, bat the position is regarded as the Allies having apparently abandoned Russia. The Omsk propaganda is succeed’ lug, the Japanese agents ing the view that Japan will readily intervene.