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Show KOREIS STffiil : JAPASFSE SOLDIERS i Bolsheviki Arm and Equip Hordes for Assault on the Nipponese Forces i LONDON, Feb. 9. (By the Assoc!-' ' ate! Press.) Koreans In the northern part of that country have attacked the Japanese troops there, says a wlrpless dispatch from Moscow today, quoting an Omsk message. The population .rose to aid Korean forces from Chi-'nese Chi-'nese territory, it Is declared. ' The Omsk message as given the Bolshevik Bol-shevik wireless, says that on February C bands of Koreans raised in Chinese I territory crossed the frontier and at-1 (lacked the Japanese. Masses of tho J , population are joining the insurgents, ' , It is added, the Japanese retreating; 1 and evacuating nortern Korea. j , WASHINGTON. Feb. 9. Official! dispatches received here today said a force of 2000 Koreans, armed princi" pally with equipment furnished by the' Bolsheviki, crossed into northern Ko-t rea from Kirin, Manchuria, and attack-1 ed n Japanese post of 700 men at night, ' killed 300 of .them and routed the re ) 1 mamdor. j WASHINGTON, Feb. 9. According! to these dispatches, the attack was tho: .Initiation of an active rebellion in Ko- i I rea. It was described as "the bpgln ! I nln of a tremendous affair." Several other clashes have occurred! oetween the insurgents, greatly rein-1 1 forced by recruits from the naties I of .he district, and troops forming Jap-;i anese frontier posts, the dispatches said. In nearly every case the Japa-' I nese were outnumbered henvilv and were forced to withdraw after suffer-1 ing heavy -losses. I According to official Information Bolshevik authorities are in close touch with the Korean leaders and are i making every effort to provide theii j troops with adequate equipment. j Reports received here recently said the entire length of the branch of tho Siberian railroad running from Vladi vostok west through northern Mar.chu-; j ria had come under Bolshevik mflu-1 enc; and that a movement was on foot f to organize the local Bolshevik forces jc in combination with the numerous . r bands of Chinese brigands to invade 1 Korea. Tliree full Japanese divisions are In Korea but it is said in Japanese circles? cir-cles? that these have been so scattered to maintain order that they probably could offer little immediate resistance to an invasion. Officials here have known for some time that many thousands of Koreans who fled into Manchuria were mediating medi-ating hostile action against Japan. While there is not real Bolshevik feeling feel-ing among these people, according to the authorities they are so stirred by hostility to the Japanese that they probably are willing to join with any othor elements In attacking them. oo Bad breath, colorless lips, sallow cheeks give a girl little chance for "a man" Don't give up. try Hollis-ter's Hollis-ter's Rocky Mountain Ten and see how popular you get. Mclntyre Drug Co. Advertisement. oo DENVER. Feb. 9. Edward Bell Field, vice president and treasurer of the Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph company, and widely known Denver club man, died at Hot Springs, Ark., Saturday, according to a message mes-sage received here today. He had been ill several months. Mr. Field was 16 years old. |