Show Antagonizing I Russia Not only does the maintenance of of her troops in Sn Siberia erl cost goat Japan enormous enormous enormous enor- enor enor enor- expenditure but it If is InadvIsable Inadvisable inadvisable able from irom the International point of view If It there are hopes for tor an early settlement of the situation in Siberia we raa may maintain our troops troops' until that time but the present state of affairs forbids any such expectations In other words it Sit is not likely that the soviet soviet sov soY iet government will lose its Hs position before long This Is 18 no not our own view but it jt Is shared by the statesmen of ot the tha powers While recognizing the Lenin Lenine government gov gov- emment the British government has haa ha at at the same time realized the Impossibility Impossibility of crushing the Bolsheviks by assisting the tile anti Bolsheviks France has expressed approval of ot the British policy and as to Italy she is most friendly to the soviet government AcI According According Ac Ac- I cording to one report emissaries of I the soviet government are now on a visit to Great Britain on a British I wars warship lp Judging by these facts It Itis itIs its is s clear that that the policy of the allies alUes toward Russia has undergone and Is undergoing a great change It should I be noted however that the allies have ho tib intention to recognize Bolshevism or r the Lenine Lenin government In a nutshell nutshell nutshell nut nut- I shell the attitude of ot the allies Is that as the power bower ow r of the Lenine g government t cannot be crushed by force of arms I their only alter alternative is to resume commercial commercial com corn mercial relations with soviet R Russia and lead her on the proper path so I that she can rescue herself It goes without saying saying that this attitude at tude is swayed b by a desire on the part of ot the allies to obtain supplies of ot food and other materials from Russia Japan n need ed not ask for Russian supplies supplies sup sup- plies and in this respect her position tion is different from that of the al allies al- al lies Hes But th there re is no o difference whatever whatever whatever what what- ever ever on other points The Bolshevik troops in far eastern Siberia are not so strong as th those se in European Russia Russia Rus Bus sia ala but since since- the Bolsheviks have spiritually won over the ordinary Russians Russians Rus- Rus Bus Rus Japan must be prepared to make an enemy of the latter If she intends to exert a restraining influence over Siberia The collapse of Kolchak and is an eloquent testimony to the extent to which the general situation situation situation situa situa- tion depends on the sentiment of the people at large When it is remero remembered th that tit It is the patriotic and racial racial racial ra ra- cial pride of the Russian people which has strengthened the position of the Lenine government It will be seen that the mere fact tact of the Japanese troops being alien is t to cause In Intense Intense intense in- in tense antagonism among the Russians What does Japan Intend to do and to get by maintaining her troops in Si Siberia SIberia SIberia SI- SI beria in the face of such animosity It is not impossible that the Bolsheviks Bolsheviks Bolsheviks viks in Eur European Russia may advance to the east Japan is fated to have as much to do politically and commercially commercially com corn with Russia as as she Is contiguous contiguous con con- con con- to the latter It cannot be to the Interest of the state that Ineradicable Ineradicable Ineradicable cable ill feeling should be caused among the Russians by bv keeping a garrison garrison garrison gar gar- rison for no clear purpose Now ow that an agreement has been reached with the provisional provision l government of Vladivostok Vladivostok Vladivostok the Japanese troops should take this opportunity to withdraw from Siberia l J. J Osaka Japan |