JAPANESE INTERVENTION.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14654, 7 March 1918, Page 5

JAPANESE INTERVENTION.

NEWS HOURLY AWAITED.

WASHINGTON CONSIDERING A

PROTEST.

(Australian and N.Z. Cablo Association.)

New York, March 5. The Washington correspondents of York newspapers state that news of Japan's military action in Siberia is hourly awaited. It is generally believed that owing to strict censorship at Tokio the announcement of Japan's action may be delayed until tie expedition arrives in Siberia.

The "New York World's" Washington correspondent says that perhaps the Japanese are already in Siberia, while a message to the "New York Times" records a growing opinion in Washington that the Allies should be willing to trust Japan to evacuate the territory without definite guarantees.

The ''New York Tribune" says editorially "By breaking faith to-day Japan could divide the whole of Asia with tie Teuton, bi,t there is no dishonoured treaty in Japan's diplomacy. Let us trust her."

The United Press, states authoritatively that the President and Cabinet are to-day considering whether to protest against Japanese intervention in Siberia. The question is regarded as one of a most delicate nature.

The United Press correspondent says that if Japan decides to send an expedition to Russia she will do so without the United States' approval.