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Show HOLDS JAPAN FOR i OEATHOF SAILORS i UNITED STATES DEMANDS AN EXPLANATION OF .ATTACK AT VLADIVOSTOK. . Dltter Resentment Expressed Over Repetition of Hostilities by Jap. aneoe Analnst American Forces Serving In Russia. i Washington. Tho United States will I hold .lapan strictly, accountable for i tho attack made upon five American ' sailors, during which one was shot In , Vladivostok on Tuesday, February 8 ) It wus stutcd by officials liero Sutur-' day. Demands for all the facts In this i most serious cuso were made by both : the stnto and navy departments. Secretary Colby Instructed the Ainer- : lean consul nt Vladivostok to torwurd t i an Immediate report. I Secretary Daniels cabled similar I . Instructions to Rear Admiral Joseph ' . Straus, in command of the Asiatic , fleet, who will Immediately appoint a court of Inquiry. First of all tho ad-; ad-; inlrnl will take tho deposition of tho i five sailors attacked .and cublo them : to Washington. I The bitterest resentment wns ex-i ex-i pressed by both the state and navy i departments over this repetition of hostilities ngulust American forces In ( Vladivostok. i Japanese sources credit tho nttack , to two former Russian officers, who , have been recognized and apprehend-i apprehend-i ed, according to n message received by the state department from tho cm- 1 bassy nt Toklo. ' i In any event the Jnpnneso arc par- tlully responsible, offlfjnls stated. ' i Their armed forces nro in nb- c solute control of Vladivostok, which ' to all Intents nnd purposes Is now J Japanese territory. ' .Moreover, this attack Is but the culmination of n long scries of bos- ' tilltles by Japanese upon American ( soldiers, sailors nnd clvlllnns In the. y Far Fast. ' |