The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-13
EngIand's Attitude, However,
Contingent on Americas.
Toxic Foreign Council Still Up
holds WatchfuI Waiting.
PREDICT ACTION WITHIN MONTH
Approach of "Hun Peril" Thor
oily ArOuses Jap People.
london Editorial Points to
4 Danger in Present Delay.
BY RALPH TURNER.

sTokio March 13-France favors
Internationally. japanese intervention
in Siberia. according to authoritative
Information here today. Great Bri-
tain's attitude. however, is contingent
upon America. which fears arousing
united Russian hostility, according to
the same source.
;.Pending word from Washington. the
fbreign advisory council postponed its
special meeting. The ministry is I'M
decided concerning opinions abroad
Rumor U-Boats at VIadivostok.
Political students expect interven-
ton within month. The press is
more prudent in its forecasts. altho
the extreme tension is illustrated in a
story from a British source, published
in the conservative Jill, that the Ger
mans have succeeded in transporting
Tin parts-five submarines to Vladi-
vostok. The newspaper declared that
check the march of German influence
eastward.
=The fear is growing of the dangers
from enemy war prisoners in Siberia,
Thousands of whom have been freed.
il Has Confidence in japan
London, March 13.-Concerning
doubts expressed in some quarters in
the subject of Japanese interven tion
in Siberia, the Daily Telegraph says
that Japan is a British ally of twelve
Years standing, and during ali that
Tune she has apart from the services
rendered to the allied cause IN the
course of the war. shown herself an
honorable and trustworthy associate
The paper continues:
The Overwhelmingly strong inter-
est of Japan in this part of the world
is of course apparent from a glance
t-the map. Japan is a highly organ
lied trading nation and is directly in
terested in maintenance of general
peace and order in lands where her
eeenomic relations are close and
which are supremacy important to her
Welfare
s'That was fully recognized by Great
Britain in the treaty of 1905.
Whatever the Siberian republic
may turn out to be when we know
anything of it, we may at least be sure
that Germany reckons. upon dominat-
asE it as she reckons upon dominating
all other fragments of the shattered
Russian empire. Germany is at this
noment pursuing a plan of world con-
as1est to which particular and unmis-
ta5fable character has been given by
The developments of the war in
Europe.
Is Benefit to Russians
+If the triumph of our enemys in
Hence is to be guarded against in the
region where japanese and other al
lied interests are especially strong the
sSoner the business is undertaken the
better. There is no sense or justice in
permitting chaos and helplessness in
Russia to be turned to the advantage
az the enemy if it can be prevented.
such action as was taken in Man
churia should ultimately be the means
ore-esta blishing national authority
or constitutional character in Russia
and if it should supply a rallying point
foF the forces of sanity and order, then
Is priceIess benefit would be conferred
on the Russian people.
3sf'The question at present is one OF
legal and necessary protection oil
Threatened national interests. In a sit
uation without parallel and in which
the ordinary formulate of interna-
tionai action are meaningless the prin-
cipal care of allied craftsmanship as
awhole will be while allowing itself
70 be guided by the logic of events as
fhey arise, to divest whatever is done
Of any color of aggressive or annexa-
ZIONIST intentions.