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Show JAPANESE PREPARE TO INVADE SIBERIA 2000 Germans Said to Be Preparing to Halt Coming Com-ing of Orientals. I HAIMUN. Wednesday, TVb. 20. The Japanese, according- to reliable authority. Intend to take action In Siberia, at an early date, and there are evidences that the Japanese have Ion? been preparing-to preparing-to earn.- out this move. The situation in Siberia is considered extremely grave, owm? to the inability of the Coss.uk geiutal. SemeuolT. head of tho fltUi-Hoishevik movement in that vast lerntorv, to secure allied support, for whh h he lias appealed to the Japanese. Jap-anese. b-nei nl Seine no;T's movt ineiit now Is officially reconi'.eii. and a general committee com-mittee has been formed at Harbin, which will net as a gcneial staff, divided into tin ee deja: tment.s financial. military and administrative. The Russian consul, M. I'opoff, has been appointeJ chairman of the committee. Two thousand Getmaux have been armed and aie drilling at Irkutsk, capital ot t he government of Irkutsk, in eastern Siberia, and. according to an official re- 1 port received from a foreign consul, the Germans are making ail preparations to send nr.uh larger forces there. |