JAPANESE INTERVENTION.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14657, 11 March 1918, Page 5

JAPANESE INTERVENTION.

DEPENDENT UPON ALLIES' FULL

APPROVAL;

SOVIETS' AND THE PEACE

TREATY,

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association)

Now York, March 8. The "New York World's" Washington correspondent learns from a high Japanese source trat Japan expresses grave fears regarding the situation in Siberia, believing that the Bolsheviki are'incapable of protecting their own interests. Japan regards April as the most suitable month to begin a campaign, but will not act except with the full approval of the Allies.

The "New York World's" Petrograd correspondent expects, tiat pe»c*» will bo ratified at Moscow by the Congress of Soviets.

The Bolsheviki newspaper "Pravda" says the worst enemies; of the revolution are Count Caernin and General Hoffman. As a result of this "robber peace" the workmen arid peasants will suffer terrible punishment.