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Show & ; SOVIET SOLDIERS KILL 1 NIPPONESE IIU TWO-DAY FIGHT i Japanese Consul Still Missing After Battle at City on Amur River -RUSSIANS LOSE 40 IN FIERCE STRUGGLE t Belief Expressed that Guerilla I Warfare Will Continue Until Forces are Withdrawn HONOLULU, T. II., April 1 (By the Associated Press.) Seven hundred hun-dred Japanese troops and civilians were killed in a two-day battle with Russian Bolshevik forces at Niko-laevsk, Niko-laevsk, Siberia, according to a Tokio cable dispatch received by the Japanese Japa-nese newspaper Nippi Jiji here. The Japanese residents organized a volunteer force to aid the. Japanese soldiers to fight a heavy force of Bol-sheviki. Bol-sheviki. cJkJapanesa consjiilale-, was .burned, 'ing, accoVding- to the cabled vr The two-day battle began on MaYah 18. Nikolaevsk Is at the mouth of the Amur river. Clashes Reported. VLADIVOSTOK. March 22. Russian Rus-sian and Japanese troops clashed at Nikolaevsk, a city located at the 1 mouth of the Amur river on March 115, the Russians reporting their losses, as being forty killed and eighty wounded. Belief is expressed here that this encounter en-counter may spread a guerilla warfare through all eastern Siberia if the Japanese Jap-anese do not evacuate the country. Announcement by the Japanese command com-mand here would seem to indicate a change in the policy tollowed by thac country. In the past the Japanes-e have beon assisting Czech forces here but in future they will devote their 'efforts to safeguarding Japan's special position in Manchuria and Mongolia. Evacuation Delayed. Evacuation of Siberia by the Japanese Japa-nese will not be started, It is understood, under-stood, until the soviet government at Moscow reaches some form of agreement agree-ment with Japnn. The local .provisional .provision-al government has handed protests lo the Japanese command regarding intervention in-tervention in eastern Siberia and the latter has concentrated its forces along the Ussurl and Chinese eastern ', railways. , The railroad to Chita, . where the! 'remnant of Admiral Kolchak's foroes; 'was trapped by revolutionists, is open, j and Czech troops in that vicinity arej thus enabled to get out of Siberia. When this is accomplished, all anii-i revolutionary forces will be eliminated as possible operations by General! Semenoff and Lieutenant General flor-j vath occasion no apprehension. oo |