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Show JAPANESE M CO-OPERATION :. 0FK0LCHAK Military Undertaking of Great Difficulty to Maintain Long Exposed Line. WASHINGTON, Aprl 19. Japanese military authorities in their endeavor to safeguard their positions In Siberia are said in official reports to be negotiating ne-gotiating for the co-operation of the remnant of Admiral Kolchak's forces still active in that district. Cession to Japan by the Russians of control of the Chinese Eastern railway is understood un-derstood to be involved iu the negotiations, nego-tiations, to which China has been made a protesting party. To maintain the long and exposed lines of communication commu-nication of the Japanese between Vladivostok Vla-divostok and Lake Baikal, a thousand miles inland, while occupying the country to the north of Vladivostok to the mouth of the Amur, has been ja military undertaking of the greatest ; difficulty. Yet, the Japanese have J firmly declared they will remain, at jlcast until they have redeemed their promise to get "the last of (he Czechoslovak Czecho-slovak troops out, and have safeguarded safe-guarded Korea from bolshevik attack. Except insofar as it might be I necessary to maintain this security, the Japanese government has repudiated repudi-ated any intention of territorial acquisition ac-quisition in Siberia, and it is stated j tills undertakng still holds good. However, How-ever, it is also understood such a j promise is entirely consistent in the Japanese view with encouragement or I the surviving elements of the Omsk J government and the people in eastern i Siberia to create a buffer' slate, between be-tween the country controlled by the Moscow government and the Japanese empire. Hence, the negotiations that have been reported between the military mili-tary chiefs in eastern Siberia. China is understood to have brought into the negotiations because that nation na-tion had a considerable number" of (troops in northern Manchuria near the 'Siberian boundary line, whose services ser-vices could be of value in an antl-, antl-, bolshevik campaign. 1 . nn |