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Show JAPAN INSISTS IT MUST HOLD TQJAKHJH.IN American Business Man Calls For Protection From Red k RaiUjrs. 1 TOKIO. July ru. (By The Asso-i elated I'resB. Outline of Japan s an-, awer to the note of the United States I relative to Japan's intention to occupy oc-cupy Sakhalin, Siberia, are printed today to-day by the newspapers, which say th- reply was drawn up at yesterday's cabinet meeting. According to the newspaper accounts, ac-counts, the answer. In pointing out Japan's policy, will say that occupation occupa-tion Is unavoidable to maintain her national privileges nnd that the decision de-cision to occupy the island will not be changed. It Is pointed out also that the reply will emphasize that Japan has no territorial ambitions und that tho occupation would be only temporary until a stable government was established estab-lished in Russia. PKOI l OIK VI ED. TOKIO, July SO t By Tho Associated Asso-ciated Press.) E. W. Krazar, American Amer-ican president of Sale and Krazar, II. nil... I .. I .. J.i.Mlfl.l I V iny, has notified the United States and Great Britain that his company has requested the Japanese government govern-ment io furnish protection tor the extensive Japanese fisheries on the coast of Kamchatka, which are financed fi-nanced by Sale and Frazar. The arrival of the American note on Japanese occupation of additional Russian territory. especially the northern half of the Sakhalin Islands, has suddenly greati .1 a strong interest inter-est in the northeastern districts of Siberia. It Is announced that Japan has already al-ready sent warships to. patrol the Kamchatka coast to protect the fisheries fish-eries and probably a No will organize land patrols thi: coming winter, composed com-posed of reservist Japanese fishermen who ordinarily return to Hokkaido when the summer's .--almon fishing is over. BolMll A llv R liis following the burning of Japanese fishing stations ikhotsk at coast by d:. In iki. Including two of the Kra-zar Kra-zar stations, the I Jolshevlkl, according accord-ing to Information reaching Tokio continued in a northeasterly direction direc-tion almost as far as lite Gull ol Anadir, An-adir, where they destroyed a Krazar fur station. Thereafter, th' y are reported re-ported to have been repulsed by Ks-qulmaux Ks-qulmaux beforo being able to "traverse "trav-erse the Bering sea and reach Alaska.! Fear 3 arc expressed that other Bol-shevlk Bol-shevlk raids Will take place this winter. win-ter. It Is understood that tho Invest-ments Invest-ments of the Frazar company and purely Japanese companies in tho region re-gion in question amount to a million dollurs. Frazar employes 10.000 Japanese Jap-anese fishermen and imports much machinery and canning apparatus frour America. |