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JAPAN AND RUSSIA. PROBLEM OF INTERVENTION,

BY DR. J. DILLON.]. Fran Archangel to Odessa, from Moscow to Vladivostock, plangent Rus sian voices are uplifted asking in the bitterness of anguish whether among the nation's many and mighty Allies of yes terday there is none who will help hom

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. WEDNESDAY, MAY 15TH, 1918.

have been achieved by the Germans in their own national interests. If Ger- many succeeds in permanently dismem bering the State which until recently covered one sixth of the globe, and in erecting a number of weak little com- runities there under her protection, what will it avail the Allies if they get a little the better of her in the West? Assume, for example, that she loses

We may say, however, that we firmly For the believe they can be thwarted. elements in the country are influential and active which would be overjoyed to owe the restoration of order and the bases ove restoril od political existence

nation invoked in favour of interposition in Europe, they could not with truth. be termed vital. Again, the Allies them selves, or one or other of them, tempered their engerness for Japan's co-operation with a degree of reserve which neu-

to the good offices of the Western Powers,tralised it, and therefore deterred. in to whom they instinctively look for lieu of enticing their For Eastern Allies. guidance.

These embarrassing errors of form im- parted decisive importance to the ques

And the arguments derived from this source in favour of a

It has often been suggested in the

are our close Allies, should supply us

Russia's pitiable plight may be likened Alsace and Lorraine (and of this we here course of this war that the Japanese, who tion of motive.

thief, here enemies prosper

Is the help about to be bestowed likely to arrive in good time, or will it, like

sce no sure signs as yet)," that these pro

vinces are rejoined to France, that with military help, and recently definite military expedition to Russia are less

Belgium and the French departments are and seemingly grounded hopes were Would these uttered that they would at least resque evacuated; what then?

us from our present misfortunes. Sooth terma connote the attainment of your

to say, these suggestions never fell in war zima?

What guarantee have you with the wishes of the Russian people. that this rearrangement of the war map

The reason? Perhaps irrational pre will be upheld even for a decade? None.

was also something judice. There would command an arrby so numerous

humiliating in the idea that the Japan that she could have her way in the Westese, who, so lately defeated our armies, without actually waging war.

destroyed our navy, ruined our prestige, and let loose the first forces of anarchy against the country, should now heap ecals of fire on our heads by coming to us as our saviours. Besides, to tell the

truth, this feeling was enhanced by a considerable admixture of misgiving, Our people were suspicious fairly blame them?

cogent that the others. For Japan has discharged her treaty obligations in the letter and the spirit, and she is not bound to do more. Responsible for maintaining order in the Far East, she will see that it is maintained. But the reorganisation of the Russian army is a different pró position.

So much for the question of principle. Other difficulties beset the technical problem. The friendly, unfriendly, or indifferent attitude of the Russian people would make all the difference between Can the Japanese success and failure.

rely upon the readiness of the population to support them? To what extent axb can you

the rolling stock and other necessaries adequate to enable them so to utilise the trane Siberian railway as to keep their troops supplied with victuals and muni tions An expedition on the scale con templated would necessitate a temporary transformation of Japan's industries, interiere with her foreign commerce, and indict considerable financial losiek,

to that of Jerusalem when Jeremiah com plained that her adversaries are the her princes are become like harts that find no pasture, and they are gone without strength before the pursuer." The Rus eiaus plead for help unerasingly, but their friends have not yet seen their way to extend it. For months the Polish army in Russia has been soliciting it in vain. Geographical hindrances com

That is the most formidable danger bined with the suicidal attitude of the Bolsheviki stood in the way of assistance the Allies have to apprehend. So from Russia's Western Ailies, while obdoubtable is it that we are surprised that Germany has not already agreed to jections born of misgivings on the part their teims, and made peace in the West of certain Great Powers prevented.

in order to garner in her harvest in Japan from intervening in the only way

the East. It looks to us as though that she considered effectual. At present

At theso latter difficulties are said to have would have been political wisdom.

LOOKING TO, JAPAN: been surmounted, and both in Europeall events, however considerable the im- and Russia the conditions laid down by portance ascribed to the Western front

"During the past few weeks this in waging the war, it is the Eastern temper has changed perceptibly. To the Tokyo Government have been guscnt-

that will matter after the conclusion of day the Japanese would be welcomed. ed to.

pence. Are your statesmen penetrated They could reckon upon the co-operation

The Germans un with that truth.

of numerous and important elements, political and military, in the country Hence Viscount Morano's Pross organ doubtedly are

What is being done to safeguard the who only want a standard to rally round has laid it down that there is no reaso Allies interests in the East?

Sour and

a leader to follow. The number of

Another oficers

Un-y Japan should mobilise.* in Russia is us we know, nothing, or

"We do. very large worse than nothing. For the assumptions respect happily, it is decreasing rapidly. These inuential newspaper writes:

not feel the need of ruining ourselves ill-starred men have been hunted and uselessly for our neighbour." ing the Ukraine on which the recent

harried and tortured atrociously, They abortive action of one of the Powers was

It is greatly to the credit of the Japan are targets for every missile, however

so that they discuss this gcustion in a based did not inercase the prestige people. Its effcot was very far from to refuge and from town to town; every

issues to be obscured by irrelevant con siderations, however nearly these may that It is useless to plead good inten-week dozens of them commit suicide in order to escape a worse death. There are tions, because to admita no extenuat

some 6,000 of them in the city and disaffect their interest. That is one of the ing circumstances.

trict of Vladivostok, whither they were

characteristic traits of this remarkable The scrupulous exactitude with chased by the Bolshoviki. They would people. revive and become a force in the land if which they discharge their obligations they could again find scope for their towards the Allies is not in the slightest patriotic enthusiasm. Then there is the degree affected by the admiration which Polish army, which may fairly be de so many of their foremost representatives scribed as the most effective military feel and express for our principal enemy. organism in the country. One may like In Nippon the Germans are regarded by or hate the Poles in peace time, but one an influential and growing section of the cannot deny them credit for the highest population as the most robust of Euro military qualitis in war. And the num pean races, their organising capacities ber of Poles who were scattered over the are highly appreciated, and conclusions various Russian armies is also very of a practical order are drawn from these large All these contingents would be admissions. Both nations believe that gathered together and unified if the their future lies in and under the water

people from the Germans and the Japanese entered Russia as rescuers of and in Japan, as in Germany, the ener population, whose Polsheviks *

"If the Jo; anew accept the mission and ead an army into Russia for the purposes specified, their efforts will be seconded with such vigour and prompt tude that they cannot fail to achieve them. Many of those who to day favour the Bolsheviki will change sides in a twinkling as soon as they can do so with out fear of being shot or imprisoned. Even now many groups and parties are openly opposed to Lenin and Trotsky,

so many other mensures of the Allies, be too late to attain the only end shut warranted it? To this question I must decline to offer an answer, but I shall transmit a contribution to one that has just reached me from Russia, and is for that reason well worth considering It comes froin two different sources. from a packet of kiters which have to: day been delivered to me after a more than usually rapid transit, and also from the oral narrative of a Russian officer who arrived here two days ago

-from Siberia. Of this secount I am in

tant passages.

ing.

or

the influence of the Entento among our vile. They have been driven from refuge detached way, and without allowing tho

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If

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peace army was disbanded and the Conship, having never before possessed the since the conclusion stituent Assembly dissolved. But all land. As soon as it can be made clear Soviets of the provinces of Moscow, sia, 1 feel convinced that before they will was not lost even then, although the to them that possession of the land is Kharkoff, Kursk, Archangel Irkutsk, or can decide upon rigging it out and Allies thought is was, There was no incompatible with pillage and robbery, Eastern Siberia, and the Urals are ex despatching it they must ascertain whe necessity for them to declare the state they will accommodate themselves to law amples. That is a significant phenome.ther it could be conveyed in good condi of things hopeless and to give up all and order. In 1905 they also gave a locso non. Let the Japanese get as far west tion to the Urals. For that is one of thoughts of helping us For most of rein to their anarchist instinets until as the Urals, and the German influence the peremptory conditions of success. On the question whether this and the other the elements that ouve made Russia a they were taught that it did not pay, on Russia as a permanent element may desirably partner in the world-conflict and then they desisted, The clergy, too, be eliminated. of the messages. I message from: Russia which I have just conditions are likely to be fulblied, tha were, and still are available. The who for generations contributed many Such is the tenor public men who organised the armies, of the nost ardent spirits of rebellion vouch only for the facts that those who communicated will, I trust, shed a cer provided the supplies, kept the transport to the anti-Tanrist movement, have now sent them are trustworthy and representain amourt of welcome light. There is machinery running the raw materials received a very bitter lesson on the notative men, and also that the opinions no doubt in my mind that recourse will boxes and crates of quality merchandise in ports the world over. For

be had to the co-operation of the Japaneso for the army, the officers, the Parliamenture, and the fruits of Bolshevism. The expressed stand for the views of a con tary parties, the Dunia blog that sup- priests have been turned adriit on the siderable and influential section of the in this (the fourth) year of the war more than fifteen years we have exported to consumers and merchants

especially now that the last obstacles t ported the Allied cause, are all as they world with nothing to live upon but Russian population.

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good sense of our American friends and in nearly every corner of the globe. place since then the Edict demo-heading a movement for the restoration As for Japanese intervention, what Allies. But from what I know of the cratising the army, was issued. In con- of the Monarchy.

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state of international relatione, might Railway before it can convey the Japan shipping arrangements and low carload rates to the Orient. way they line of thought and action,

permanently affect vital interests of ete expedition and its impedimenta "It is a fact that an arrangement has Nippon which will not become pressing within a reasonable period of time. they were wrong. For even as an ele already been come to between the Ger for some years to come. But these ment in the struggle going forward an order restorers and the Russian

To my thinking, then, the Japanese. Russia might still play a

by Japan's Minister of Foreign Affaire reach Irkutsk, and possibly some other tain really

and Brithe Monarchy under a set of complex Viscount Motono with whom I have the point to the west of that city, in the wished. But they must go conditions adjusted to Russia's present

course of the present year; but it would to work in a businesslike fashion. needs, and also to Germany's designs vicce to bo personally acquainted. is worse than useless to send us dele for the future That is a factor in the whose best work I have studied at close, be rash to assume that they can get to gates, as they have done, who have no situation the gravity of which is self to rank at the head of the world's con hequaintance with people, or Russian Jews with English

Jows with and evident. The least that should be done

is to make it known in those quarters of temporary statemen with the qualifica and French names who, with the best Entente where knowledge betion facile princeps was one there will in the world merely estrange the transmuted into power. For if the plan has her been majority of the people So far as my information goes there.

men who are conversant with the langu- ahead there no adequate reason why

The army, which could not possibly hold out of our people. And if they have none

arguments against it were many such let them employ real Russians who

one new Tear this year, a nominee of forcible. The Japanese soldler could whose further resistance could in no know French and English. Our people restored Tsardom will cover only a fracing for cause which he does not quite damage its own. In like manner we must the Kaiser'a. It is certain that the hardly feel the same ardour when fight case advance the Allies cause, but only don't want ambitious politiciano..

tion of the old one, but beyond that one understand as when doing battle for his allow for the changes which time may EAST AND WEST.

cannot as yet make any guess as to its own country, and the idea that he might effect in the political and military out- extent, because permanent dismember- *But even if Russia wore unable to ment of Russia is an essential part of be regarded as in some sort a mercenary look, changes which I am incompetent to help her Allies in waging war against the Teuton programme

is gall to the Japanese. And, however forecast. The only things certain to-day the Germans, she will assuredly be well

ardent desire of the best sections of the able to help them to keep Europe from "These projects and they have already important the of the Japanese are the intervention of Japan and the being overflooded with Teatonum after got beyond the stage of projects demand Nothing is said about the vast number Russian poulation, to see order and tran the peace. And that is a consideration the instant attention of the Entente of Austrian and German prisoners in Russia, quillity restored, and the determination worth meditating and acting upon at Powers. For it is not for us in Russia, most of whom are nos armed and could of the Allied Governments to continue onco For if the Entente Governments tied and hampered as we are, to deriso perims be organised by their leaders against the struggle unflaggingly. -Daily Tele

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