Show JAP N I E I A 1 Aggressive Policy of oi I II Tokio Watched W With th Uneasy Interest by Toy byI I Washington Officials als alsI I I t 1 VL VLADIVOSTOK D K April 17 By th the Assoc Associated As- As soc ted Press Pres Press Heavy Heavy Heavy hight ng between between be be- tween Russian and Japanese forces I continues at at th the mouth of the Amur river and casualties casualties casual casual- casualties ties suffered by each each side are heavy according to reports received here J i- i Towns along the the river branch of of the Trans Trans Siberian Siberian railroad north of here are held by Japanese bu but hun hundreds reas' reas of Russians have again I started guerrilla g errilla warfare in the hills I Arrest Arrests Arrests- of oJ Russi Russians ns by bi Japanese here hera continue but government buildings build build- buildings I ings are being g returned the red rea j Js re reappearing ByJ i r i William av J Vi Vir r rw iIi w nt International r l Ne News s Service S e Staff Correspondent Cor WA N T April Apri vv The rhe activities a of Japanese Jip Jap ne nee c cI troops the Chinese Eastern I railway and in the vicinity of Vladivostok and I in eastern Siberia are ars being watched from Washington with uneasy interest 1 I Clashes between Japanese troops and the Russians and between the Japanese and armed workers among among them being Czechs along the line Une of ot communication by rail from the Baikal reg region to the Sea of ot Japan I Iare Iare I are growing In seriousness and in frequency while officials here admit I I neither the exact cause of the friction the precise aim of Japans Japan's military mittI mitt mili I tary rations operations has been made cleat clear I I SENDING MORE TROOPS I The state department has been InI Informed In Informed In- In formed that two new Japanese divisions di dl- dl I visions will be dispatched to Asia I almost Immediately A messa message e from Tokio explained that these divisions are to relieve tired divisions now in Siberia This Is taken to indicate that in instead instead instead in- in stead of ot withdrawing from that p part rt I of ot the world a as Japan was supposed i I to do when the French British and I Americans dear cleared d out of Russia f as s sl they have now now done Japan intends keeping large forces there LARGE FORCE These forces now number about The original Intention of the allies was for th the United Stat States State's s 11 France England and Japanese each to send to Russia about men I Japan first sent but later cut this number down to one half only to reinforce the contingent subsequently subsequently subsequently by two fresh brigades An excerpt from a Japanese paper printed In Hawaii has reached Washington Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington with the assertion that hat the Japanese ar are In Siberia jo to o stay The United States has recognized that Japan Japan- has special int Interests r In China but this this' agreement does tot rot extend to Siberia At the Japanese embassy here here- hereIt It itI it itI 1 I was was' explained ed the fighting around I Vladivostok at and and Dha- Dha was was' du due to the aggressive I attitude of the Russians I SUPPRESS NEWSPAPERS I TOKIO April 1 17 The The two E English ish t newspapers newspapers newspapers' print printed d at I have been suppressed by the Japanese military authorities according to In Information inI in- in I formation re received here today The special l Japanese military mission mis- mis mission II sion slon at Vladivostok which h Is acting j on orders from the general staff is accused of maintaining sympathetic I relations with General and I other reactionary Russians' Russians and impeding im im- im- im the the work of the diplomatic mission The newspaper newspaper- in I commenting upon the Japanese occupation occupation pation in Vladivostok and other Bussian Russian Rus Bus sian territory asks Can It be said that we have any foreign policy W WASHINGTON ASI INGTON April 17 Senator Senator ate Knox today Rep Pi that r Pennsylvania he was ai informed told t the that t sil senate sen senate tho tha state department had refused the request of Mexican officers for a a. permit to transport transport transport trans trans- I port troops through American territory I to lo move Against the the- Carranza anti forces I in Sonora I State Stahl department officials officials' today said the request had not come ome from the thel Mexican govern RI as they stated I yesterday but fron from high officers of or the I Mexican army It It- tyas was Jefe t to to th the I war department 0 t 7 t |