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Show JAPANESE rITUATIGN-HQLDS MENAGE POLICING OF SIBERIA III DISPUTE Five Amertaxn Sailors Said to Have Been Fired Upon While in City of Vladivostok WASHINGTON. Fob. 12. Secretary of the Navy Daniels today cablod Ad- i miral 8trauss, commanding tho Asiatic float, for a report on dispatcher from Tokio that fivo American sailor had been fired on in Vladivostok. Tho Tokio report said one sailor had been wounded. Tho state department also cabled tho American consul at Vladivostok for report on the shooting. Tho embassy at Tokio forwarded to the department a Ksres account published there which said that two former Russian officers a-ad boon arrested. By A. t. BRADFORD United Press Staff Correspondent. WASHINGTON, Feb. 12. American opposition to the policing of -Vladivostok by -Japanese forces is creatine a "serious situation," according to unofficial dispatches reaching here from Japan. Since the killing of Lieutenant W. T1. Langdon by a Japanese sentry at Vladivostok feeling between the Japanese Jap-anese and other forces in the Hlberian city Is understood to have become increasingly tense. FIRE ON AMERICANS. Unofficial reports that a party of five American sailors had been fired on in Vladivostok by Russian communists com-munists iu an effort to provoke an I open break between the Japanese and . Americana there were read with great concern. I The United States is believed to have questioned Japan's right to occupy Vladivostok in its note pro- testing the killing of Lieutenant i Iangdon. The present administration, tiowever. 1 . expected to hand the whole s tuatfon over to Harding for adjustment. TOKIO REPORT. TOKIO. Feb. 12. Five American bluejackets were fired at by unknown ', persons in Vladivostok at 11 o'clock Tuesday night, one of them being - wounded, says the Asahl Khimbuna Vladivostok correspondent today. The Americans, reinforced by Rus-t Rus-t aian pollceme.i. arrested three Rus- i sian officers formerly under the late . General Kappel, once commander of ' the western armies of the Omsk government, gov-ernment, the correspondent adds. The Impression In Vladivostok, according ac-cording to the correspondent, is that the attack vas arranged by communists com-munists with the object of straining I relations between Japan and the United Htates. j |