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Show TiSSf Soldiers and Officers ( Arrive Daily at Vladi- ! vostoli Public Ss i Alarmed. i ii LONDON. Friday, March 8. Details I of an alleged landing of Japanese j troops at Vladivostok in January are given in the Petrograd newspaper Novaia Zhizn of January, 19 which has just been received here. The paper say3 that the Japanese cruiser Mikado arrived on January 12 and was followed fol-lowed by two more cruisers on January Janu-ary 4. Four thousand soldiers were landed and numbers of officers continued to arrive in Vladivostok daily, according to tho newspaper. The Japanese admiral ad-miral assured the local Workmen and Soldiers' council that the arrival of ships and troops should not be considered con-sidered as the beginning of military operations, but they were there to protect Japanese subjects. The message to the Novaia Zhlzn says the Vladivostok public was alarmed al-armed greatly and that the ravolu- lioriary committees were" concentrating concentrat-ing Bolsheviki troops. Information concerning the reported report-ed entrance of British and Japanese cruisers into Vladivostok harbor was asked of the British and Japanese embassies em-bassies in Petrograd on January 20 by the Bolsheviki government The Japanese Jap-anese embassy in Petrograd Immediately Imme-diately issued an official statement denying the Japanese forces had been landed at Vladivostok. It was added that the presence of a Japanese cruiser cruis-er at Vladivostok had no connection with the situation in Russia. The British Brit-ish embassy said that British warships had gone to Vladivostok to protect Al-1 Al-1 lied subjects against possible disorders. disor-ders. nn |