The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1920-07-06
HOLDS JAPS ARE
BOLDLY PUSHING
SIBERIAN WAR
Correspondent in China De-
clares Arrogant Conquest is
Going on Unheeded
GREAT POWERS KNOW 1T
Sees Japan Reaching Out for
Control Of Great Territory.
in the Far East
BY JACK MASON,
Manager, Far Eastern Bureau, News
paper Enterprise Association.

m ! BY JACK MASON,
Manager, Far Eastern Bureau, News
paper Enterprise Association.
Shanghai, China, July 6.-Behind
a screen of strict censorship, Japan
is boldly, arrogantly, pushing her
project to conquer and absorb the
maritime provinces of Siberia. \
A real war of aggression is in pro
gress, comparable to that begun by
Germany in 1914 1t is like the lPrus-
sian attack both in the ruthless meth
DDS used and in the great natural
richness of the wide territory coveted
by the invader.
This war is being conducted on the
flimsy pretext of a "friegdly occupa-
tion," to restore law and order. 1t
is actually grim and terrible drive
to spread the confines of the jap
anese empire. yr
Powers Know, But Do Not Act "
The governments of the United
States and Great Britain are fully
informed of it's progress and purposes.
They know, because they have secret
intelligence agents scattered through
out the Far East. " -,
Thus far, however, they have taken
no steps to thwart Japan's aggres-
sive purposes. nor even to inform
their peoples of what is going on.
Japan hopes for free, hand in her
war of conquest, for security from
interruption or interference, because
she thinks the United States, Great
Britain and other allied powers are
up to their necks in their own domes-
tic problems, and in the general Eu,~
rOpean mess, nearer home.
From private sources of the utmost
reliability / have received informa
tion about Japan's war in Siberia that
should open the eyes Of the world,
It comes by secret channels from
Vladivostok, which japan has sought,
to shut off from the worlds view.
The facts present cannot be gain
said or denied. The various foreign
governments cannot make public the
reports of their own secret agents
without proving all this and much
more which cannot tell at this time
without going beyond the positive in
formation at hand
Japans new war in Siberia began
late in the night of April 4 with the
capture of Vladivostok from the Rus
sian provisional government. It was
accomplished by treacherous coup
d'etat against provincial officials
with whom Japan had been dealing
on a supposed basis Of friendship
and peace. .
Shot Down in Streets
During that night, and succeeding
days, hundreds of peaceful inoffens-,
i've civilians were shot down in the
streets of Vladivostok and other
Siberian cities. The total dead num-.
bered thousands-how many thou
sands no one ever will know.
Most of the dead were unarmed
men, women and children who hap
pened to be in the streets, and who
offered no resistance.
| Many of the dead were buried
secretly, by night, to conceal as far
as possible the direct evidence of un.
provoked, wholesale murder.
In at least one instance, where hun
dreds were killed, THERE WE'RE
NO WOUNDED.
The coup d'etat was planned with
military cunning. 1t was executed
without a hitch 1t was complete
surprise. In this it was typically
Japanese, like the attack, without
notice, by, which Japan began her
war against Russia in February, 1904.
Japanese soldiers now rule the oc-
cupied territory with an iron rod.
mercilessly in severity, intended to
wipe out all hope of resistance.
{, Expect Race War
The prize Japan seeks is great It.
is a very large stretch of territory.
bordering the Sea of Japan, the Gulf
of iTartary and the Sea of Okhotsll.
It has wide areas for colonizing jap
ans crowded millions: 1t has great
wealth of mineral resources for Jap
ans rapidly expanding industries.
In japanese hands this Siberian
territory will be an inexhaustible
storehouse Of military supplies for a
war of world conquest, as well as
great breeding ground of human can
non fodder for such "a war.
Only three things may stand IN
the way Of Japan's success in grab
bing eastern Siberia:
ONE-The desperate resistance
of the sturdy, patriotic Siberian
peasants, who will fight against
Japanese domination to the point
of extinction.
= TWO-Possibility Of financial 4
panic, industrial depression and
popular revolt Of the Japanese
people at home, struggling under
a terrible burden of taxation. -
THREE-Bold action by the
governments of the United States
and Great Britain, and perhaps
others, acting in concert to order
Japan out of Siberia, and China, \
forever. 5t