Japan
RUSSIA AND JAPAN.
ON EAST COAST OF ASIA.
DmilD PBIH ABBOOI4TJON. (Received 8.15 a.m.) Washington, [December 27. The Japanese Embassy has been officially, advised by Russia that she has ceded Japan its, half of Saghalien in exchange for heavy guns for use in Europe.
Saghalein is a Russian island off the' east coast of Asia, in the Sea of Oklotske. It is included in the Primorsk Government, and is 670 miles long, the area being 24,560 square miles. The island was ceded to Russia by Japan in-1875 and many of the population are Japanese. Saghalien is mainly used as a convict station. Population about 16,000. SEMI-OFFICIALLY DENIED. (Received 9.15 a in.) Petrograd, December 27. The cession of Sakliai«cn' i<? semiofficially denied.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 307, 28 December 1914, Page 5
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