Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-03-12
J.. S. OBJECTS TO
SIBERIA INVASION
Japan Notified 1t Must Make De-
ciSion for Itself.
NO PROTEST AT WASHINGTON
Tokyo Government Will Take Action
With Approval of Britain ard
France-President Sends
Note to Ally.

washington, Mafcn o.-Ine UnlIeu
States has not assented to the Japa-
nese offer to occupy Vladivostok.
Whatever the purport of the note
we have sent in answer to the propo-
sition to which England and France
gave their unqualified Endorsement, it
is certain that Japan cannot extract
from it any assurance that we APP
prove of the invasion of Russia
against her wishes.
This does not mean that we have
protested, though the discussions over
Japan's plan and the complications 1t
involved even attained to that phase.
The best guess-and nothing better
than guess is possible-is that the
United States has practically told
Japan that she must judge for herself.
the necessity for action in the far
East, and that while we have no doubt
of the sincerity of her purposes of
guarding the allied interests in Asia,
it would help matters if she made q
declaration of her intentions for the
sake of quieting apprehension in Rus
STA.
All Tongues Sealed.
The state department would offer
no comment on the situation.
There was a cabinet meeting at
which the Japanese offer and our re-
ply were discussed for two hours and
the cabinet members would not say a
word about it.
At the White House no light was
vOuchsafed beyond the simple fact
that we had not assented.
On every hand the details of the
portentOus note was guarded.
Japan Will Go Ahead.
Japan will go ahead with her pro-
gram: she would have liked to have
had the united blessings of the allies
in her enterprise, but she can get
along with the countenance of the
English and French, and the neutral
ity of the Americans,
She offered to take charge of the
munitions at VladivostOk and the har-
Dor, and so much of the Trans-Siber-
ian railroad as she deemed necessary
for her purposes as part of her con.
tract to safeguard allied interests on
her side of the world. If she can't
60 to Siberia as the representative of
a syndicate she is prepared to &c
there for her own protection.
The world moves fast nowadays
Japan reasons, and while the appear
ance of Germany in Siberia seems like
a distant possibility, it is no more in
credible than her approach to Petro
grad appeared year ago.
Intervention Agreed?
London, March 6.-The Evening
News says the question of japanese
intervention in Siberia has been set
tied and that all the allies as well as
the United States have agreed to i'm
mediate action to safeguard the in
tereSts of the entente powers.
cossacks Fall Back.
Shanghai, March 6.-Sharp fighting
at Diourai, on the Siberian rail
way DeIWeeH 1OICcS VI lue CoSSdCh
| SemenOff, and many well-armed boil
sheviki, was reported in a Hardin dis
patch to the North China Daily News
The Cossacks are said to have with
drawn to Sharasuh, which they ar,
terrifying.
Japan's Cabinet Busy.
Tokyo, March 6.-The Russian stu
alton is completely absorbing tn,
press and the public. There hav
been frequent meetings of the Japa
nese cabinet, at which, doubtlessly, TIL
entire question was considered mos
carefully with full realization of tn