Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-01-22
JAP TROOPS ALSO
 ,.,T0 BE WITHDRAWN t ''' FROM SIBERIA SOON
Nation Has Accomplished Her Purpose, Officials
 Declare

Tokio, Jan. 21.-Japan's object in agreeing to cooperate with the Uni ted States in supporting Czecho- Slovak troops in Siberia has been at tained and the withdrawal of Japan ese troops from Siberia will follow it was decided at meeting of the advisory diplomatic council yester- day, according to newspapers here.
 1t was asserted at the meeting, il is said, that Japan has no terror torial ambitions in Siberia and that troops now being sent to that coun- try are merely to replace losses. II was declared that fundamental poli- cies will not be affected by this step The council is reported to have en- dorsed the cabinets decision not to interfere further in the internal af- fairs of Siberia and to adhere strict ly to the governments declaration when it entered into it's agreement with America in 1918.
 In the agreement between Japan and the United States, announced in Tokio on August 1, 1918, the Jap anese government declared its desire to promote relations of enduring friendship with Russia and affirmed it's avowed policy of respecting the territorial integrity of that country as well as of abstaining from all in- reference in Russia's internal poli- tics. It was further declared that upon the realization of it's objects Japan would withdraw all her troops from Russian territory and leave un- !, impaired, the sovereignty of Russia in all its phases.
 Would Retire.
 Washington, Jan. 21.-Official ad- vices from Tokio received today have indicated the purpose of the Japan csc government to follow the ex. ample of the United States in with drawing its military forces from Si- beria.
 Discussions in the Japanese press and utterances by political leaders have developed that probably a large majority of the Japanese people arc adverse to entering single handed in vasion of Siberia.
 ha3e been withdrawn from Siberia Tksre remain now only about 5000 American and perhaps 30,000 Jap anesc troops, in addition to tho Czecho-Slovaks whose number ha: been vaguely placed at somewhere between 10000 and 10000. It is planned to remove all of these Czecho- -Slovaks by February 16, anC the :. American troops should have quit by March 1.
 Altho their lines extend much fur ther to the westward than those ot the Americans, the Japanese have only n short voyage from Vladivos- tok to their own country so that their invasion of Siberia may bt completed early in the spring.
 As retreats are always highly dan gerous to an army, involving sacri. flee of life and material in req, gRMfar actions, it is possible and ef. fort may be made to obtain protec ton for the retiring troops by al agreement with the bolshevik leaders ins Siberia.
 General Semenoff, with his 14,00( Cossack irregulars, would be left tt face the steady eastward advance o1 tH bolshevik forces. At present hG holds a considerable portion o1 the line of the. Siberian railway, bu, it Is expected, unless he is prepared to make terms with the bolsheviki he will be obliged to withdraw his forces to the Steppes of Siberia anG conduct desultory warfare indef iniAely