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Show RUSSIANS DESTROY !' JAWS CONSULATE jj Ify TWO-DAY BATTLE S During Cbh of Troops at Ni-kolaevsk Ni-kolaevsk Siberians Have Forty Killed and Wounded. RUSS MAKE REQUEST PEACE WITH JAPAN Delayed Advices of Clash Reach Military Headquarters Headquar-ters in East Siberia. San Francisco, April 5. Japanese Japa-nese Vice Consul Ishida has been killed by the Bolsheviki at Nlkola-evsk, Nlkola-evsk, eastern Siberia, according to cable advices received by the New World, a Japanese language news paper here, today. The same advices said that the Russian government formally has asked the Japanese government fof I - .. j i i . jccu,c inu kiic tripctnese government 1 has responded by sending Ysgoro I Miura, its special envoy at Paris and former minister to Switzerland, to Russia to investigate. Recent Honolulu and Vladivo-j Vladivo-j stok dispatches told of ,jghtingbe.r tween Japanese and iisslans in NU I kolaevsk, a town on the Amur rlv. : er in eastern Siberia. Vladivostok dispatches, March 22, reported for-I for-I ty Russians killed and eighty wounded. A Tokio cable to the Nippu Jiji, 1 Japanese vernacular newspaper in Honolulu, March 30, quoted delayed ! advices to Japanese military head-I head-I quarters in Siberia, reporting a two- day battle between Russian forces ' and Japanese at Nlkolaevsk begin- nmg March 18. According to this j report the Russians destroyed the Japanese consulate there and Vice Consul Ishida was missing. |
