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Show JAPS WANT TO LEAVE S!BEI Evacuation of Troops Is Near Paper Says, Despite Official Offi-cial Denial TOKJO. Feb. 25. (By The Associated Asso-ciated Press.) Iteference to the question of ihe Japanese oc upat ion i of the maritime province of Siberia j was omitted in the recent note from, Toklo to Washington relative to the death of Lieutenant Lancdon, who wu- shot and killed at Vladivostok by' a Japanese sentry. In the orlKlnn I , communication regarding th- deatn of Lieutenant L'ingdon. the presence of Japanese forces in eastern Siberia i was one of the significant features of the United States' position The idea of withdrawing Japanese forces from the mainland of Siberia i Is gaining ground In official circles, I declares the Kokumin Shimbun. Although VlscoUlit L'chlda, foreign I minister, recentl) declared before the ' Japanese diet that the government had no Intention at present to wlth-' wlth-' draw Its forces, the Kokumin Shimbun says members ut the cabinet are begln-I begln-I nlng to ix lleve that either the Lang-! Lang-! don affair or the creation of the Chita I j government, or both, should be prized ' upon as an excuse for evacuation. on |