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Show JAPAN MAY FIGHT. Advices come from Hrrbin to tho effect ef-fect that the. Japanese intend to take action in Siberia at an early date and that, arrangements for intervention in Russia ha ce long h.-:n under way. It is jaid that, the CoR-m-k general, Seme noff. unable to ra.i.ke "headway again3t the Bolshevik element, has called upon the Japanese for lid- It is also said that two thousand Germans have been armed and arc drilling at. TrkutsU. capital of the government, of the same name. n eastern Siberia, and that, the Gcrmjns are making arrangements to send much larger forces there. If there is any way in which to t-ave Sihcria. from the Germans Ger-mans and Bolsboviki, nothing should be left undone, to accomplish such a purpose. pur-pose. Tf possible, an independent r- -public should be bit up and protected by the allies, which at, thin lime means the employment of the Japanese army. The gTain and raw material of Ukramis will naturally fall into r.ho hands of tho central powers, nut they should not be allowed to obtain wheat no- supplies of meat from Siberia. Thi will he attempted, at-tempted, in spite of the. lurk of trans-I'orlri'ion trans-I'orlri'ion facilities, just ns soon as tho peace treaty if .signed nt Brest-Lituvsl: and Lcniric. and Trot.zky arrange trade niatters with their Gorman maulers. We wish fh .Tupanoii government would . , send an army to Macedonia, Italy or France, and be "in at the death" of the Hun autocracy, but we doubt if our wish will be granted, for there are no signs of any such move men t. |