Ogden Daily Standard | 1915-08-25 | Page 1 | Japan May Send Russia Troops

JAPAN MA! M Il I T 8? 0 1 ill TT ID (Pi OOP Mikado's Minister in France Hints at More Asis- tance. TRIPLE ENTENTE FIRM Must Be Held Together Even After the War for World's Peace. Paris, Aug. 25. 5:15 a. m. "My first care will be to draw stilL closer the bonds uniting Japan and the powers pow-ers of the triple entente," said Baron Kikujlro Ishii, the former Japanese ambassador to France, who recently became minister of foreign affairs in the Okuma cabinet, to a representative representa-tive of the Petit Journal. "Is not the fate of Japan," asked Baron Ishii, "entirely bound up with that of her allies? Na, 1 go further alter the war the relations of Japan and the triple entente must remain not a whit less close, not only in the interest of each but still more in that of the world's peace." To an Inquiry as to what aid Japan intended to give Russia, tho Baron said: "Since the beginning of the war, Japan has been sending arms and munitions to Russia. In the presence of the grave difficulties through which Russia is now going, it is an imperative duty for us to consider what more can he done in order to give her tho maximum of help"