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Show JAPAN WON'T WITHDRAW R. R. GUARDS IN CHiNA TOKBJ. Aug 111. Japan sent a communication to China, saying the government 18 uable to comply with China's request for a wthdraival of the Japanese guards on the Chinese ' Eastern railroad. I The communication points out that the guards were statlonoa on the rail-' i way to "prevent possible lnva-sion of I Manchuria ami Korea by the Bolshevik! Bolshe-vik! and that existing conditions still; prrvent withdrawal of this barrier against Bolshevik penetration." ' This action, the communication says, 1 was ln accordance with an agreement of the powers to put the railroad on an International footing until a legitimate legiti-mate Russian government, capable of preserving law and order was established. estab-lished. It ..tatt-s that Japan, therefore, does not feel under obligation to consider China's request. |