The New York herald., 1921-01-23
.KATO SCORES JAP
POLICY IN SIBERIA
Leader of Opposition Party
Declares Troops Should
Be Withdrawn.
BIZ the Associated Press.
COMPROMISE WITH REDS
Nationalists Condemn Min
istry and Say Politics Suf-
fers From Debility.

TOXIC, Jan. 21 (delayed) .-Japan's pol
icy in Siberia, as conducted by the pres
ent Ministry, has been a crime rather
than failure. Viscount Takaaki Kato,
| leader of the Kense-Kai, or Opposition
party, is quoted by the press to-day as
saying. at general meeting of the par
ty yesterday, held in preparation for
the reopening of the Diet to-day.
Japan should have withdrawn her
troops as soon as relief of the Czecho-
Slovaks was attained" Viscount Kato
declared. otherwise. she should have
despatched a more powerful force to
sweep the Bolsheviki from Eastern ST.
IBERIA and aid in the establishment OF
strong anti-Bolsheviki Government.
He charged that indecision reigned In
Japan, which had unwisely effected
compromise with the provisional Gov
ernment of eastern Siberia nj CHINA
really the tool of Lenine.' Meantime,
Viscount Kato asserted, the campaign
had cost many lives and involved the
expenditure of 400,000,000 yen, and
Therefore was criminal. He said he con-
sidered the occupation of the whole or
northern Saghalien and the institution
of military administration as guaran-
tee against another Nikolaievsk massa-
ere to be unnecessary and Japan would
regret It,
s.There are about two divisions now
| in the vicinity of Vladivostok,' Viscount
Kato declared. "The Russian admins
| tration in Vladivostok has recognized
| the Chita government as holding
suzeranty over eastern Russia, and the
value of the repeated declarations Of the
| Japanese army commander is thus re-
duced to nothing.
TGen. OF, who recently was relieved OF
! the command of the Japanese troops in
Siberia declared repeatedly he would
not tolerate Soviet rule in any OF the
regions occupied by Japanese troops.]
AS communications between Vladivos-
tok and the interior has been cut off
there Is no necessity for maintaining
| troops at Vladivostok, and they should
be withdrawn Immediately"
The Kokumin-to. or Nationalist party,
| in a manifesto issued to-day, condemns
the Ministry as not possessing fixed
policy on any great question. 1t urges
retrenchment in military expenditures in
order to permit internal reforms.
Imperialism no longer is consistent
with the japanese spirit and must be
replaced by industrialsm with the aim
Of economic expansion" says the mani
festo. "Japan's politics are stepped in
old thoughts and suffering from debility.
The people must awaken"
Premier Hara and Foreign Minister
| Uchida will deliver their formal ad-
dresse to the Diet tomorrow
Immediate evacuation of Siberia, uni
versal suffrage and insistence upon
Japans rights in the California ques-
ton, were demanded in resolutions
passed at a general meeting Of the
Kensei-kai yesterday. The party held
a meeting preparatory TO the reopenins
of the Japanese Diet, and, in addition
to the above demands, urged that MAIN
tenance of friendship with the United
States be made basic policy of this
country, and also indorsed the League
of Nations and a renewal of the Anglo
japanese alliance in the interest or
world peace.
Takeshi Inukai, leader of the Koku-
min-to. addressed a meeting OF that
organization. cond GINNING Japan's policy
toward America, China and Russia, de-
claring II was Sowing the seed for
future trouble"