The New York herald., 1921-07-04
JAPAN Is BLAMED
FOR REVOLUTION
Anti-Bolshevist Papers Trace
Cause of VladivOstok
Uprising.
GEN. SEMENOFF A TOOL
Japanese Refused to Allow
Chita Government to Sup
press Uprising.
GEN. sEMENOFF A TOOL

Speciur Correspondence to THE NEW YORK
HERALD.
REvAr., June 1s.-The anti-Bolshevist
Russian press. published outside Russia.
is largely anti-Jap. and convinced that
the so-called revolution in Vladivostok
is a Jap affair which they cannot coun-
tenance. The Svobodnoe Sloro of Reval
is very decidedly of this opinion. So Is
the volyo Rossse, also an anti-Boishevist
paper.
"This yladivostok revolution" says
the Volyn Rosste, "is simply another ad-
.anture The idea underlying
1, is the formation Of Japanophile Gov
ernment. Japanese policy in the Far
East changed. and those In charge OF II
determined to accomplish revolution IN
v,od,vostok That revolution was not
urexnected. 1t was accomplished by
Gen. Rozanov. who formerly represented
Kolchak in vladivostok. and by the foi-
lowers of Semenoff. all OF them extreme
~oact,onarv. discredited and isolated,
and hound by close ties Of servitude to
the extreme lingo wing OF the Japanese
War Party.
Jap. Back OF Revolt.
Long before the revolution came
about II was evident that IT was coming
and that the Japs were at the pack Vi H.
AT Grodekoff. for example, the Selie
noyists openly formed a detachment
under the command Of Col. SaveieiI on
the pretence Of self-protectlon aeains'
bandits Saveleff carried out arrests.
committed murders. held up trains. yet
the Japanese refused to allow the Cnita
Government to send troops against MIN
or against the imaginary bandits ne
was suppos ed to be suppressing on the
ground that there was no armed force
In the Grodekoff district.
"Sayeleff then moved in the direction
of Nikolsk and Vladivostok. but the
Japanese did not apparently CONSIDER
that the time was yet come, 1or tney
allowed him to retreat and to hide him.
self for a time. Saveleff and his 1rienos
had agents even In Vladivostok. but 1t
was impossible for the Russian authori-
ties there to do anything against them.
as they had Japanese protection. jap
anese official papers. and boasted that
thew were Japanese Government en-
ployees. This boast the Japs did not
deny. On the contrary they conveyed
these peopls in their military trains and
they supplied them literally with arms
and money.
Reactionaries in Power.
The Volyn Rossie, which is violently
anti Bolshevist. says 1t has list OF
ffty-six members Of the new vladivostok
government not one of whom is any
thing but g. reactionary. 1t says /:
"Merkuloff, the head Of the new Japan
ophile administration of Vladivostok.
was head Of the monarchist organization
in Vladivostok and the guiding spirit
of the Black Hundred newspaper SIovo.
The whole business is cynically Japa-
nese and not Russian. and the whole
population of the Russian Far East re-
CARDS those taking part In 1t as traitors
to Russia worthy only Of hatred and
curses.
The new Vladivostok government is
supported by Japanese money and
Japanese bayonets, and Lenine may
we'll be grateful to the Mikado for thus
strengthening his fading power in the
Far East and making all Russians there
look on the Chita republic as the de-
fender of Russia's national and gov
ernmental interests"
The conferences OF Russian monarch
lists, which recently met in Berlin and
Bavaria, resolved to work hand In hand
with the German monarchists. Prob
ably in view of the veiled Jap attack on
the Siberian Pacific coast. the Russian
reactionaries are also prepared tenn
porarily to support the Bolsheviks, as
In this way they can best act directly
on public opinion In Russia and bring
II more to the right The monarchists
are even prepared to enter the Red
army so that they may be on tho spot
when the collapse they expect comes.
The candidate for the throne ON whom
they have their eyes is the ex-Grand
Duke Dmitry Paviovitch.