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Show JO- JAPAN WANTS ISLAND. London, Oct. 21, 1:47 a. m. The Cologne Gazette published a report which it says passed the Russian censor, cen-sor, that Japan undertook to supply Russia with munitions in return for a complete cession of the Island of Sakhalin. The island of Sakhalin, 570 miles long and from seventeen to twenty miles wide, lies between the east coast of Asia and the northern Islands Isl-ands of the Japanese archipelago. Russia Rus-sia owns the northern and Japan the southern end of the island. |