JAPAN'S HOUR TO STRIKE.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14648, 28 February 1918, Page 5

JAPAN'S HOUR TO STRIKE.

GERMAN PERIL IN THE EAST.

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association)

I*aris f Feb. 26.

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 to 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' Tokio, instead of Berlin to Baghdad. Japan understands tfce darger to the people of Russia and Siberia. It is no longer sufficient to police Siberia. The war must be waged there. Every day German influence, is dragging tho 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 deartb of medicines and clothing and of every kind of industrial machinery since 1914. 'The distress' among the Russian people is unimaginable. The brutal question is whether Germany shall organise Russia against the Allies or the Allies organise Russia agairst Germany.