Salt Lake Telegram | 1920-01-21 | Page 1 | Nippon Reluctant to Remain Alone

Nippon Reluctant nt To Remain Alone WASHINGTON Jan 21 advices fr from m Tokio received here hay hav indicated the purpose of f the Japanese Japan se government to follow follo the example of he the the United States in iWi withdrawing its military forces rpm Siberia Discussions Discussion's in the Japanese press and utterances by political leaders have developed that probably a large maJority majority major- major I ity ty ity of 01 th the Japanese people are adverse to entering into such sucha a avast I vast enterprise se as a the ih of Si Si- Si I beria BY MARCH ARCH 1 1 YANKS OUT All of pf th the foreign elements b been en withdrawn from Siberia there remain now only a about ut American and per perhaps aps Japanese e t troops Ops In addition to the Czech Slovaks Czecho-Slovaks Slovaks who whose e number number has been vaguely placed at ats s somewhere between and It is planned to remove all of these C Slovaks echo by February 16 ie and the American troops should have haye quit juit by March Marchl 1 I Although their lines extend much farther to the westward than those of ot the Americans the Japanese have only I a short hor voyage from Vladivostok to their own country so that their evacuation vac atlon of Siberia may be completed C very early in the spring LOOKS BAD FOR General with his Cossack irregulars would be left to face tace the steady eastward advance avance of ot the forces At present he holds a considerable portion of the line of the Siberian railway but it is ex expected expected expected ex- ex unless he is prepared to make terms with the Bolshevik he will be obliged to withdraw his forces to the steppes of Siberia and conduct a desultory desultory tory warfare indefinitely living on the country as far as as possible