Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-18 | Page 7 | Request Japan Make Apology

REQUEST JAPAN IO0LSG! Russians Refuse to Order Rail Men Back in Siberia VLADIVOSTOCK, April 11. The provisional government here refuses to conduct any negotiations with the Japanese until the protest issued on April 6, demanding an apology from the Japanese, is answered. The situation situa-tion developed when the Japanese1 asked the provisional government to j oider the Russian railway men to re-, turn to work on the railways. Thej newspapers of Vladivostok print bitter attacks on the allies because of their j failure to protest against the Japanese actions in Siberia. Americans arriving here from Ni-kolsk Ni-kolsk report that events there cm tho night of April 14 were virtually tho same as In Vladivostok, the Russians' being disarmed. Many of them fled to the hills. The Japanese report that 3k of their nationals were killed and 80 vounded while the Russians suffered 200 casualties. The Japanese state that they nave blown up the great bridge over the Amur river at Kharbarovsk, being- forced to take the utmost measures for detense against partisan troops ap-proaching ap-proaching from the west. The Japan-, ese In Kharbarovsk apparently are in a difficult position. B