JAPAN NOT HOSTILE TO RUSSIA

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14651, 4 March 1918, Page 5

JAPAN NOT HOSTILE TO RUSSIA

DEFINITE ACTION NOT SETTLED

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association)

(Received March 3, 5.23 p.m.)

London, March 2.

The "Daily Mail" understands that the British and Japanese Governments lay stress upon the fact that Japan's intervention in Russia can in no sense be construed as hostile to Russia or the Russian Government. The purpose, apart from the protection of Allied interests, is to assist Russia to lighten, and eventually to lift, the German burden.

It is reported in London that Japan has hitherto only sounded the Allies regarding intervention. She has not made proposals.

Japanese circles in London declare that Japan does not seek aggrandisement, but recognises that Japan's security in the Far East is endangered by the new Russian situation.