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Show JAPAN DECIDES SIBERIAN. POSTS Will Demand Satisfactory Settlement Set-tlement For Massacre of Seven Hundred Japs. WASHINGTON. July 4. Japan har. decided to occupy such points in the province of Saghaltcn, Siberia, as it deems necessary pending the establishment estab-lishment there of a legitimate government govern-ment ?tnd a satisfactory settlement for the massacre of TOO Japanese at ivlkolalevsk. The government's decision was published pub-lished jeterday In the official gazette ai Tokio, and at the same time announced an-nounced by Premier Hara in ills ad-dies., ad-dies., at the opening of the special session ses-sion of the Imperial diet. The premier announced Japanese troops would be withdrawn immediately from those districts of Siberia where they were no longer needed. Japanese troops w1H not be withdrawn with-drawn liom the V.olivostok region. hoveer. il.i ki i riiiin nt holding that l lu Stands on R different tooting because be-cause Korea i an b" menaced from thLs direction Many Japanese live there, end Harborovsk, Within the region, constitutes s point ol strategic importance im-portance on : he way io Sughahcn. Premlei Haras speech, as made public toda by the Japanese embassy horo. said. Special sessions of the diet being brief In duration, the government intends in-tends to propose onl bills whose, early passage is In the interest of national' demands, viz: Those concerning the) national defense, the Increase ot sal-j Ules, the revision of the pension system. sys-tem. tht Improvement of the judicial! system and the development of national na-tional power. The question of Chinese loans, the government is gratified to note, has been solved by formation of a new consortium. "The event of Nikolalovsk is heartrending heart-rending In the extreme. The government govern-ment laments the fate of those who fell victims of atrocities, and the honor hon-or of the nation naturally demands positive action." |