Show I RUSSIAN VILLAGES INVADED BY DY JAPS Little Litle Enemies Fast Driving Out Czars Czar's Subjects Along the Amur and Republican Special Cable St. St St Petersburg F Feb Fb b 2 The The sKi kl Krai Kral publishes an Interview with General has tins wih Just re returned returned re- re turned from an nn Inspection tour along the Amur and ful rivers river whet Japanese are heng being Vt allowed to 8 settle tUO freely General ff affirms I that the tie Japanese are aru eating up the Russian villages lages like locusts I The he Japanese said the th cn general I can can oust any European ra race by mere stress It Is II a mistake to tu suppose that they do this only because ause they thoy are aro on a lower material level level The They oust both prosperous rous and educated edu ehu Iu 1 Russians and poor and aud Ignorant I Russians The he Iu Russian lan settlers after the war wat began tegan benn to hire Japanese coolies to assist In harvesting The Te Japanese were al nl- nl lowed to settle sette on un small smal plots of com corn communal land lanc Thc They worked hard and I la saved Then tIle the they o opened small mal stores stores lne I After t r a n year r halt half the villagers W Wf were T rA in debt to them They took payment In I kind Instead of being paid In a perI percentage perCentage per per- of ot wheat what for working on tho the farms arms the they were soon JIll paid tho the same percentage c for doing nothing as thin goods they palmed off ott on the simple were worthless Gradually the they claimed a larger and larger of ot the crops and now in several cases the they have ha ousted tho the peasants altogether One village which hn had 40 Russian farms farms' now has 22 2 Russian nn and 30 Japanese Ja Ja- farms The Thc Japanese subdivide the holdings and alid bring over relatives Russia Russin in hast Fast Asia sla is vanishing Russia Russin Rus flue sin sia should have bac Insisted Instated at nt the Portsmouth Portsmouth Ports Ports- mouth conference on having a free hand to restrict Japanese settlement If Jr present conditions con c continue she will In have to abandon the tho Pacific coast CORt en entirely en- en to the Japanese |