The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-30
Japanese To
 Build Great
 Wireless Plant
(By George R. HoImes.)

| Washington, March s0-Frustrated l in their persistent efforts to oust the Americans from the possession of Russian island, the most powerful | wireless station in the Orient, the Japanese have at last despaired and have undertaken the construction of | a powerful station in Japan proper, | according to official advices reaching Washington
 Japanese naval engineers have be- gun the erection of a station at
 Oshima in Nagasaki Prefecture, some | TOO miles south by east of the Anaeri- l can station at Vladivostok. WheR completed 1t will be the Arlington of Japan and will be capable of com
 munfcating with all parts of the world.
 Back of Japan's decision to build | this new station is a record of sev- | eraI years strenuous and futile effort to secure possession of the Russian | Island wireless which is now. held and | operated by a few American naval officers and some thirty-five men re- | cruited from the Asiatic fleet. The seizure and operation of the plant by American naval forces, de- spite Japanese protest, has been a Japanese occupational troops in | Vladivostok- Much of the trouble be- tween the Japanese and Americans in the Vladivostok district could be
 
 | of this wireless station according to naval officers. The ill feeling that admittedly does exist was manifested not long since in the shooting to death of Lieut.. William H. Langdon by a Japanese sentry.
 The fact that American naval forces occupy and operate this pow erful station is but little known out side official circles. Japan has long | coveted it. according to American |
 cient1y good opportunity to take pos session.
 When the il1-fated Kerensky gov .ernment capitulated the situation of the small Russian garrison at the sta tion became untenable and the Japan eSe were preparing ito move in. The importance of the station to Japan could hardly be overemphasiZed. It is not only the most powerful station 1 in the Orient. but It lies only ten miles from VladivoStok proper, which Japanese troops and a few Americans were then occupying.
 While the Japanese were laying
 plans to seize the station, the Ameri-
 cans moved in quietly and took pos
 session. Whether the commander of
 from Washington his own ini tiative has never been dfvufged. In all events the Japanese were furious
 when they found the Americans in
 
 cfals. The Japanese officials virtually demanded that the Americans vacate and give them possession. The Americans refused and have held the station ever since in the face of per sistent efforts to oust them. The re- fusa1 of the Americans to get out is | understood to account in no small measure for the stiff necked attitude | which Japan has maintained in the controversy over the island of Yap and the Pacific cables.
 The Russian island station really belongs to Russia. and 1t is expected by American naval officers that it will be returned to Russia tas soon as we can find out who Russia ds,'' as described by one naval officer The | Ann ericans, it was said today, are ready to turn over the station to any responsible Russian government but until that responsible government be- comes apparent the Americans are go- ing to continue to occupy and operate the station. At all events it has been determined that the station will not be delivered to Japan