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Show I SIBERIA AND THE JAPANESE Notwithstanding the pledges at the Washington conference, are the Jap-: anese moving steadily forward toward the control of .Siberia, nnd if they are, is the peace of the world threatened? There Is an answer to be found in an article In "Asia," written by C. H. Smith, an American engineer who was . persuaded by Ambassador Francis to i go to Russia at the beginning of the world war. He spent three years in vestipatlnrr for the state denartment ' I according to the New York Times, and : in his story of Siberia, made this com- j ment: To know the vast and scarcely j touched resources of Siberia is to real lze that covetous nations will scheme io control them. Before th war one-ninth one-ninth of the world's gold production eame from Siberia, There are the largest virgin limber iract.-. along it"1 coasts are the most profitable fisher ies; there are immense undeveloped fields of oil and COal; and the waste places of Siberia should one day be a ' granary for the manufacturing nations, na-tions, Siberia is not Bolshevist nor i 'ommunist. "TIm- chief obstacle to! the consolidation of power by the Chi-ta Chi-ta government and the extension of its away over all Siberia le the presence if Japanese troops ' .i Vladivostok tney hold the key to Siberia The lapanese are in a position "to an-j iioun.ee to the world thai disorder pre I veil! ill Siberia and that they must; lemain to prevent chaos." The allied troops entered to keep, military supplies Accumulated ."t viad ' ivostok from falling into the hands of German and Austrian prisoners and to vacutile the Czech forces and ' sta ed io fight Imaginary Bolshevism.' in the end the western allies in with Ir'nriiiir "nvAtrMait lh.. Iknannka u-i'tV. II !:'tlJ i heir excuse tor remammg," and they !ec hi' : . " To the I'.dS'o of Kolchal; have made thr most or It. The American engineer In Siberia l nd the support given him by the al-i al-i ipVf ''es maJ kr' Iraced all the evils that Kj I j i 1 subsequently developed " The policy of the Japanese accord ing to this American observer. Is to j hold all the means of ingress into Siberia, Si-beria, Sakhalin, Vladivostok, the bhl-na bhl-na coast port of Darren. The Japanese allow no trains to leave Vladivostok! without their permission. This is ruin-1 ous to British and American exporters! of goods needed In Siberia. "So long is the Japanese are in Siberia, there; must be trouble," says Mr Smith. " and until they leave a real Siberian ' government cannot possibly be established." estab-lished." If the Japanese'galn permanent control con-trol over Siberia, there will be a rapid expansion of the power of the mikado's mika-do's empire, and ten years will bring America full realization that the foundation foun-dation of another war of tremendous proportions, involving tho United States, has been laid. |