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Show JAPANESE ALSO TO MOVE TROOPS FROM FROI 1 SIBERIA Iokio Declares it Has No Ter-j ritorial Ambitions Object I Held Nearmg Attainment i TOKIO, Tuesday, Jan. 20 Japan's , )bject in agreeing to co-operate with he United States in supporting Cze-'j :ho-SIovaki troops in Siberia has been Utained and the withdrawal of Jap-inese Jap-inese troops from Siberia will follow, t was decided at a meeting of the advisory ad-visory diplomatic council yesterday, iccording to newspapers here. It was asserted at the meeting it s said that Japan has no territorial imbitions in Siberia and troops now jeing sent to that country are merely .o replace losses. It was declared thnfe fundamental policies will not be affected af-fected by this step. The council is re-)orted re-)orted to have endorsed the cabinet's decision not, 10 lmenere luriner m the internal affairs or Siberia and to adhere strictly to the government's declaration when it entered into its agreement with American in 1918. WASHINGTON, Jan. 21. Official advices from Tokio received here have indicated the purpose of the Japanese government to follow the example of the United States in withdrawing its military forces from Siberia. Discussions in the Japanese press 'and utterances by political leaders have developed that probably a large majority of the Japanese people are averse to entering single-handeB into such a vast enterprise as the invasion of Siberia. All of t lie other foreign elements having been withdrawn- from Siberia there remain now only about 8.000 Americans and perhaps 30,000 Japan ese troops in addition to the Czechoslovaks Czecho-slovaks whose number has been vaguely placed at somewhere between 20,000 and -10,000. It is planned to remove re-move all of these Czecho-Slovaks by February 1G and the American troops should have quit by March 1. Although their lines extend much further to the westward than those of the Americans, the Japanese have only a short voyage from Vladivostok to their own country so that their evacuation evacu-ation of Siberia may be completed very early in the spring, Geeeral Spmenoff, with his 14,000 Cossack irregulars, would be left to face the steady eastward advance of the Bolshevik forces. At present he holds a considerable portion of the line of the Siberian railway, but it expected ex-pected unless he is prepared to make terms with the Bolsheviki, he will be obliged to withdraw his forces to the steppes of Siberia and conduct a desultory de-sultory warfare indefinitely, living on the country as far as possible. oo |