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Show JAPANESE LIBERAL ATTACKS TERAUCHI Declares Premier's Policy Is Bound to Cause Strained Eelations With AJUes. By Staff Correspondent of International Interna-tional News Service. TOKIO. Jan- 2. Charging tliiit Japan has been and is 'aa!eep in the midht of war," and has failed to do its prc-rr s.iare in tie great conflict, Yukio Ozaki. Liberal leader in the Japanese diet, today m2de a, bitter attack upon the Terauehi m:::istry. He paid: "Whe Presicent Wi!:-on and Premier Llord George are ccdaring- their coun-tneb' coun-tneb' and lii;-' "war aires. Japan re-iT-kins piint . Thi? pohc is bound to cjse trra'ned relations v.ith tl.e ai'is. Our riiplomacv toani hir.a rjs been marked' by oritisni bneiiiirg North Cb-na." Ho asserted that, charact erisu- of what 1 he termed the indifference of the Japji -rese government tovard the b:g evc-n'- of the war. waft its policy of allowing Vt,-. ahie? to interfere at Vladivostok wiie-.i an arrement had bc-en reiched between Jaran and the L'nit-rd b'tates bv whit h Japan pledzed herself to protect allied Interests in the Facifi:. The Li'x-ral leader furthpr criticised the gove.n merit's policy toward Russia, 5-ay-ji there should be but one aJterr-ativ: Either recoeiiize or denounce the E-l-fee-.-Iki." Answering the attack. Foreign Minister Montono declared that a statement of Japanese war aims would b forth-ximiriq when the lime was considered upper -tone. |