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Show JAPAN TO HELP FEEDSIBERIANS t N. C. A. Special to Tho Teleoram. TOKIO, Japan. Nov. SL Japan will figure largely In the feeding of 81 -berla thla winter and In the reconstruction recon-struction of her economic life. Japan had, before the - signing of the armistice, named a commission to go Into Hi berla and study ttv eco-norjev eco-norjev needa of the country, the aid which Japan ran lend hero to the big problem of feeding the world and of restoring It to a productive basts is not to be Ignored. Baron Megata. who needed the financial comuiieHlon to America last fall, la brad of the Siberian commission. I "The first needs of Rlbeiia, says Megata, "are food and clothing. Cloth sells by the fmt In Harbin, and only one-foot alrlps are sold at a time, so ararce Is tho supply. Iarae quantities quanti-ties of boots must be supplied to the Hi berla na by Japan. There la need for . electrical fittings and hardware of sll aorta "Rolling stock for the railroads of P Iberia, scsnt enough In mileage at the beet, furnishes one of theblggest problems, particularly becauejfj"of the fact that thene roads all are harrow gauge. Jaiutn has difficulty Xxi supplying sup-plying her own rail road a. and America Ameri-ca must aid Liberia aa well as Japan here. "Because nf a lack of necessary financial fi-nancial machinery, banx'ng facilll les. Japan and Hibrta will ret ert to the primitive method of exchange of goods. Japan a 111 take the leather, hides, wool, furs and lumber of HI-berla, HI-berla, of which-there are large sup-piles, sup-piles, and wilt give In return the foodstuffs food-stuffs nnd manufactured -products of which Siberia stands most In need." H Iberia has ctxperatlve unions or selling aeencies Id all Cie principal towns, which will greatly aid the Interchange In-terchange of goods with Japan. "Our work." aaye Megata, "ia to restore re-store the situation, as far aa 'poaalble, as it existed prior to the fall of the Kerens y administration. We want to replace the commercial relations that existed between Hi berla and Japan three years ago. Our exports to Siberia Si-beria have been reduced to one-fifth what they were then. F.x ports from Siberia to Japan have been increasing, showing the trade possibilities there. We shall be able to open up new ln-j dustries and belp Hi berla to get on I her fet " |