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Show JAPANESE Ml EVJICUME , SIBERIA Nippon Officials Now Considering Con-sidering Revision of Former Stand TOKIOt Feb. 25 (By Associated Press). Reference to the question of Japanese occupation of the maritime province of Siberia Waa omitted In the recent note from Tokio to Washington relative to tha death of Lieutenant Langdon, who waa shot and killed at Vladivostok b a Japanese sentry. In the original communication retarding the death of Lieutenant Langdon. the presence of Japanese forces In eastern Siberia was one of the significant features fea-tures of the United States' position. The idea of withdrawing Japanese forcea from tha mainland of Siberia is gaining ground in official circles, de- . Clares the Kokumin Shlenbun. Although Viscount Uchlda, foreign minister, recently declared before the Japanese diet that the government had no Intention at present to withdraw its members of the cabinet are beginning to believe that either the Langdon affair af-fair or the creation of the Chita government, gov-ernment, or both, should be aeized upon aa an excuse for evacuation. |