The New York herald., 1921-12-25
Provide for Valuation Of
Accord With SemenOff
and Others.
ASKS FORTS BE RAZED
Dismantling Of Vladivostok
Fortress and Troop With
drawal Sought.

Special Dispatch to The NEw York HERALD.
Washington. d. c.. Dec. 20.
Seventeen points, with three secret
paragraphs. comprise the demands
made by the Japanese Government
on the Russian Government in Siberia,
which for disregard Of sovereignty
and as unveiled political and eco
nomic penetration can only be COM
pared with the notorious twenty-one
Chinese points.
Uriun, representative of Far East
ern Foreign Affairs at Moscow, and
Shiverisky, head of the group repre-
senting the Far Eastern Republic in
Washington during the conference on
Far Eastern affairs. gave the gist Of
the Japanese demands to correspond
ent Of THE NEW York HERALD.
Jokers in One Paragraph.
Those terms would oblige the Russians
to dismantle the fortresses OF vladivos-
tok and others along the Pacific coast.
The Russians must withdraw their
troops frorf along the Corean frontier.
Japanese officers would receive freedom
Of the country In Siberia--freedom to
travel wherever they choose and to in
spect everything. Most Of the other
paragraphs deal with economic conces-
sions, such as giving the Japanese the
right to own land and concessions pri-
critics to mines.
Most Of the jokers are in one para
graph. and would oblige the Russian
Government at Chita to recognize all
accords concluded by the Japanese with
other Russian governments. When ques-
toned the Japanese admitted that this
would validate not only the old Czarist
agreements but--and here is the Joker
such accords as those reached by Rus.
sian adventurers such as Gen. Semenoff,
whose forces at Vladivostok were and
still are in Japanese pay.
Parallel with those demands the Japa-
nese have been digging in throughout
Manchuria and in Eastern Siberia. They
have de facto military control over much
Of the East Chinese Railroad and have
made q vigorous effort to get Russia's
place on the International Board Of
Control.
Russians in Moscow recently returned
from Siberia and the Chita delegation in
Washington tell Of recent Japanese
pressure upon local Siberian authorities
to secure both mining and farm conces-
sions
The Japanese too are exercising full
fishing facilities. not only along the
Siberian coast, but also in the Amur
and other rivers. Now, too, the Japan
ese seem to have reversed their recently
announced intentions of evacuating ST.
IBERIA. aiming and provoking the White
Russian forces about vladivostok to
begin operations again against the
Eastern Republic.
Two Advantages Sought.
Most of the diplomatic dealings COW
ering these events have taken place at
Dairen. railhead of the Eastern
Chinese railroad in the Lao Tung
Peninsula. Negotiations have been 60
ing on here between the Japanese and
Russians from time to time during the
last year. Last spring they were broken
off, but this fall were resumed again.
When the Washington conference was
announced. abruptly the Japanese took
the initiative In seeking to resume me-
gotiations with the Russian Govern
ment.
The Japanese saw two distinct ad-
vantages to be gained here. They
hoped. first of all. to consolidate their
penetration Of Siberia and of Manchuria,
and to secure Russian recognition for
gains made before the Washington con-
ference should raise the Siberian ques-
ton. Secondly, they proposed to resort
to Dairen to reach easy terms with the
Bolsfevist Russian and the Far Eastern
governments In event Washington re-
fused to recognize Japanese pretentions
in Eastern Siberia.
But the Far Eastern Republic re-
fused to accept the japanese Seven
Points. They want the Japanese
out of vladivostok, but not at the
expense Of northern Sakhalin. In the
demands of the Japanese for repara-
ton indemnity for the massacre of
Japanese troops by the Russians at
Nikoliavsk they see merely a pretext
for Japanese expansion In Siberia, and
a convenient pretext to annex Sakhalin.
In the circumstances II Is not sur
prising that the Japanese are not eager
to have Siberia raised as a subject of
discussion at Washington. 1t is on the
American agenda. though not on the
Japanese and II the subject is raised II
Is generally believed that the Japanese
will only participate In vague general
ization about Russian integrity without
any definite application of this highly
desirable principle to Siberia.