JAPAN READY FOR ACTION.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14643, 22 February 1918, Page 5

JAPAN READY FOR ACTION.

TYPHUS AT PETROGRAD

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.}

New York, Feb. 20.

The <(New York Times'" Mexico City correspondent states that a thousand Japanese have sailed for Japan, foreshadowing Japan's more active participation in the war.

Mr Iyeraga-, in a tepeecli in New York, said that Japan was ready to send an army to Russia at a moment's notice. She merely awaits the Agios'

signal

The "New York World's" Petrograd correspondent reports that typtus is spreading fast at Petrograd. The hospitals are filled to overflowing. Sixty per cent, of the cases are fatal.