Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-03-06 | Page 6 | Japan Gets Consent

JAPAN GETS CONSENT. The I'riited .States and the Kuropfm allins are in iigroernfnt on the Siberian question, and the Japanese will go into Russian territory with tho conHcnt of all the countries now at war with Germany. Ger-many. There is no doubt of the ability of the Japanese army to perform the work it set:- out to accomplish. The full extent of .that work remains to be Been, but there need bo no fear that the United States will lie u party to any agreement that will yive tho lie to our assertions that we are fighting for democracy. de-mocracy. There hun always been more or less distrust of Japan in this country coun-try some of it due to the fJerman propagandists, prop-agandists, who have nought to embroil the two nations in war for their own unholy pnrpo-ie.s. This having been fully exposed, we are now beginning to give 'he Japanese e red it, for honesty when tiiey d.-clnre Hiey HOek jio territorial terri-torial aggrandizement. So if they go into Siberia we shall expert them to come out again at the rlose of the war, if not sooner. It in very probable that a real meanre exists, sineo the Bolihe-viki Bolihe-viki turned 1,'nssia over to the eentral power, and, as Japan is the only country coun-try in position to rombnf, Hindi a condition con-dition of affairs, it is perfeetly natural nat-ural that she should rush into the breach. Tin1 feeling of t he JtussiaiiH nee. not be considered, for they uro to blame for the whole trouble.