Ogden Daily Standard | 1918-03-25 | Page 3 | Japan Acting with Caution

JAPAN ACTING WITIUAUIION T0KI0, March 2d.- (By tho Associated Asso-ciated Press.) Tho Interest in America Amer-ica and In Europe in tho possibility of Japanese military intervention in the war lu duplicated in Japan, where tho question of tho dispatch of an army to Siberia not only overshadows everything else but has created a national na-tional problem not approached in importance im-portance since the Russo-Japanese war. The correspondent in this connection con-nection Is reliably informed that Japan, Jap-an, after the frankest exchango of views with the allies,- is sUll studying tho question and has not decided upon its policy. Representative opinion among the Japanoae regards tho sltuaUon as serious se-rious and as fraught with possibilities of danger to tho safety and national interests of Japan as well as to tho cauBe of tho allies. Tho chaos In Siberia Si-beria with batUes botwoen opposing factions on tho border of Manchuria, Is regarded as mado more Blnistor by tho presence of 140,000 German and Austrian prisoners who ure virtually at liberty, and by recent accounts that German officers havo been noon in the ranks fighting with the BolBbeviki. It la announced that tho Japanese navy is making caroful preparations to meet tho possibility of the Germans transporting submarines to tho Pa-clilc Pa-clilc Tho two Japanese warships at Vladivostok, it is pointed out, could and murines in. the event of danger to the lives and property of, tho Japanese. The fact that several Japanese were among the killed and wounded in recent re-cent Siberian engagements has en-" couragod tho press more vigorously to urgo governmental action. In Japan the war has created a grave question by tho steady rise in the.prlce-of XoocLand other-necessities, causing increasing hardships to the masses. oo