Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1920-04-13
JAP ARMY SE|zEs
PORT OF SIBERIA
Mikado's Troops Occupy vIadi-
vostok After Eight Hour Fight.
ALL RUSSIANS ARE DISARMED
Surprise Attack Is Made on the City
After Last American Troops Leave
MANY RevoIutionists Escape
Into the Hill Country.

Vladivostok. April - Japanese
troops occupied Vladivostok after eight
hours of severe fighting in all parts
of the city.
The japanese imperial flag is flying
in the place of the Russian ensign.
from all government buildings.
Some of the officials of the reyolu-
tionary contingent have been arrest
ed and deported. All Russians have
been disarmed.
Throughout the night the Japanese
fought with rifles, machine guns,
grenades and small artillery in all
portions of the city.
Take Russians by Surprise.
Their incessant firing met little OPP
position, as the Russians were taken
by surprise, the Japanese moves to-
ward occupation having been unexpect-
ed by the party in power.
Many Russians escaped 20 the hill
country behind the city, whence they
had come two months ago when the
all Russian government of Admiral
Kolchak fell before the attacks of a
revolutionary party.
Wait Until Yanks Leave.
Early Monday the Japanese launched
their attack in the Corean quarter,
which !. they occupied. Later they
marched Corean and Russian prison
ers, tied together with ropes, through
many of the streets of the city.
The last of the American expedition
airy force under Brig. Gen. William S.
Graves left Vladivostok April L. 4
few hours subsequent to their depart
ure proclamation was posted through
out the city stating Japanese troops
would not evacuate Siberia at the pres
ent time.
The proclamation warned all inhab-
itants against any unfriendly attitude
on the part of the Russian population.
The tenseness of the situation had in
creased hourly since that time until
the clash.
Report Reaches Washington.
Washington, April 7.-Japanese
troops have forcibly occupied Vladi-
vostok the state department was adj
vised. The social revolutionist gov
eminent that seized control of the city
several months ago has been over
thrown.
Intense fighting, it is revealed, pre-
coded the Japanese occupation. The
local VladivOstok government has de-
manded an apology from the japanese
and an investigation by an allied COM
mission.
The Importance of the news is the
fact that the action of the Japanese
may bring them in actual conflict with
the Russian soviet republic of which
the Vladivostok government is known
to be an integral part.
The state departments information
came from the American consulate in
Vladivostok, and the messages bearing
the news were dated Monday and
Tuesday. The cables disclose that the
Japanese began their preparations to
seize the city late in March. At that
time they gradually extended their
lines to cover the hills commanding
the city. The japanese flag was
raised over Tiger Hill, which dOmi-
mates the railroad station and terminal
tracks on April /, and Notifications
were Immediately prepared.
No Americans Injured.
On April 2 a set of demands by the
Japanese was presented to the Vladi-
V0stOk government, and two days later
an advance into the city was ordered.
The Japanese troops moved in regular
order toward the railroad station and
firing began. Shots were exchanged
between the advancing forces and the
troops of the provisional government
of the city.
Up to eleven o'clock Tuesday morn
ing, according to the state depart
ments information, no American had
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