SIBERIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 January 1920, Page 5

SIBERIA.

A SERIOUS SITUATION. AN APPEAL TO JAPAN* By Telegraph.—Press Assn. i -£opyrlght. Received Jan. 11, 5.5 p.m. London, Jan. 8. The situation at Irkutsk is increasingly serious. Nine thousand anti-Koltchak insurgents are being constantly reinforced and armed with machine guns and aeroplanes. They are holding up the town. It is understood Sevenoff, who is westward of Chita, has appealed for the dispatch of a Japanese division.—Reuter Service. POSITION OF UTMOST DANGER. LORD SYDENHAM'S WARNING. Received Jan. 10, 3.5 p.m. London, Jan. 8. Lord Sydenham, writing in the Times, takes the gravest view of the Far East situation, owing to the Bolsheviks' presence in Central Asia. The Red's advance on Siberia and South Russia constitutes a serious, menacing upheaval, and the whole position is fraught with the -utmost danger. By the irony of fate, the Kaiser's prophecy of an Eastern peril being let loose seems about to come true, for there are forces which will make it a reality before long. The inventors of the parrot cry "Hands off Russia," may realise the terrible responsibilities they incurred. —Times ServiceTHE ROLE OF JAPAN. NO ANNEXATIONS DESIRED. Received Jan. 11, 11.5 p.m. Tokio, Jan. 8. General Carimoteoi, commander of the Japanese forces in Siberia, in a speech, said that Japan only wished to guarantee peace. She does not desire territorial annexation, acquisition or any other gains in Siberia.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ALLIED TROOPS LEAVING. AMERICA ARRANGES REPATRIATION. Received Jan. 11, 11.5 p.m. Washington, Jan. 8. Mr. R. Lansing (Secretary of State) has announced that two army transports will be despatched for Vladivostock from New York to repatriate Czechoslovak, Polish, Jugo-Slav. and Roumanian troops now in Siberia.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.