RUSSIAN PROBLEM.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16035, 28 January 1920, Page 3

RUSSIAN PROBLEM.

JAPANESE FORCES IN SIBERIA.

Australian and N.Z. Cable Association, TOKIO, January 26.

Premier Hara to-day declared that the despatch of reinforcements for the nese troops in Siberia was unavoidable in order to assist the Czechs to guard the railways. Premier Hara declared that there was no reason to withdraw Japanese troops from Siberia because the United States did so. He pointed out that the position of Japan and China in the Far East was different from the position of the United States and Britain.

SOVIET AMBASSADOR TALKS,

WASHINGTON, January 22.

Martens, Soviet ambassador, at the Senate sub-committee of investigation, denied that the Lenin regime planned a world revolution. Lenin recently advised the Italian radicals against precipitate action. The Soviets were now strong enough to face the world. Agitation propaganda was no longer necessary abroad.

THREAT BY BOLSHEVIKS

WILL PREVENT RESUMPTION OP

TRADE.

PARIS, January 27

Debas states that the Bolshevik Government has notified the Allies of their refusal to authorise resumption of trade relations except after the conclusion. o an armistice. They will sink all Allied ships in Russian ports unless an armistice is concluded.