The New York herald., 1921-07-24
WARNS AGAINST JAPAN
Domination of Siberia Only
a Part of an Ambitious
Scheme, He Declares.
LAYS BLAME ON ENGLAND
Asserts That Mikado's Govern
ment Will Trick America
and the Powers.

Commissdr StekloD, about t1hom
little has been revealed except the fact
that he represents the brains of tho
BolsheUist bureau of propaganda in
Mosco,c, has sent to THE New YORK
HERALD statement of the S0UtetS
pie,c of the revolution at Vlddtuostok
sohich could appear to have put IN
jeopardy their rule over Siberia. Be-
t1ueen the lines OF this message con
be read that the BoIsheviki are dIive
to rery pressing danger, and to tcdrd
it off Con,missar StekloT Is seeking by
propaganda to entbron the enemies OF
the Sopiets and dipide them among
themselves by 1cduing the flag of the
"yelloao menace"
Capt. Francis McCulla0h, CORE
spondent of THE New YORK HERALD at
Recall, tcho Jor11drded the StekIot
statement, also presents a digest OF the
Dietcs of Bolshepist authorities on
Siberia, revedHn0 toIdt Is evidently In
tended to be the defensive programme
of the Sopiets.
Commissar Stekloff's message reads:
"If the imperialists of the Entente
are behind Japan they will be punished
for their crime. The Japanese will In
the end deceive them all The i'm
perialists Of the United States will
have a rude awakening If they dream
for a moment that they can utilize
Japanese greed for their own ends and
that they can get any advantageous
concessions out of the Japanese land
grabbers. The English imperialists
will be also deceived, for the Japanese
will infallibiy drive them out Of India
and are already freezing them out OF
China. But worst deceived Of all will
be the French imperialists, from whom
the Japanese will sooner or later take
Indo- China, probably with the benign
ant approval of the British.
$50 far the Americans, English and
French have tried to stay the insatia-.
BILE appetite of this young yellow beast
of prey with the flesh and blood Of the
Russian people. But, having tried
their teeth on Russia the Japanese will
soon try them on their present train
ers and protectors. For these gentry
we have no pity, but 1t Is sad to think
that irreconcilable enemies cause new
difficulties for the Russian people just
at the very moment when they have
at last obtained peace after SO many
struggles, and try to drag us into a
new war;
Points to Japanese "Grab."
sFT.t.- - - To- &c. 10
occupation of the Primorsk and Amur
provinces were long ago prepared very
systematically. Several vitality impor-
tant documents In connection with
these plans fell some time back into
the hands of the General Staff of the
Chita Government and were duly pub
lished in the columns Of the Far East
ern Prada (Dalnevostochnaya Prav-
da). The authenticity of these docu-
ments could not be denied by the Jap
anese and were not denied. They
proved that the troops Of the Mikado
were prepared some time ago to oc-
cupy the Primorsk and Amur prov
inces with the help of Russians. who,
to quote from one of the documents
referred to. were willing to serve the
Imperial Japanese Government
There was no talk In those docu-
ments Of Japan wanting to overthrow
Bolshevism or TO help the anti-Bol-
sheviks. She was simply out to grab
the whole Pacific coast of iberia for
the Mikado, and to pay well any White
Russians who would help her by act
ing as mercenaries or as fgureheads
But first of all II was necessary for
the Japanese to come to some agree
ment on the subject with the Entente.
Consequently. In August last year, a
special japanese mission was sent to
sound the French and the English
Governments on the new scheme for
solving what they called the Siberian
question That mission was not for
the moment successful. The reasons
for It's failure were set forth in
Japanese communication, afterward
forwarded to one of the White Rus
sian leaders in Siberia, but ultimately
copied by an agent of the roviet Gov
ernment.
Puts blame on England.
"These reasons are as follows: The
general European situation. the vic
tories OF the Soviet army on the Polish
front, the growing danger from the
Soviet Government. the perceptible
antipathy Of the United States and
China. the steps taken by America
with regard to Saghalien, the general
preparation for war on the part OF
America the secret agreement between
Soviet Russia and Germany: all these
things prevented our proposals with
regard to Siberia from being fully ap-
proved Of Moreover, the Japanese
Government Itself became inclined to
adopt a waiting policy. being afraid.
according 10 one Of their own secret
documents. that any premature step
may ruin our whole great idea
But this pause was only tempo
rary. The Japanese imperialiets only
wished TO await new and more favor
able international conjuncture. With
the Silesian question threatening to
produce a rift In the Entente, with
England appalled, by the chaos in
ireland and still more appalled, by the
prospect of similar chaos in Grear
Britain as a result of the coal strike
and the unemployment. with America
coming again into European Affairs.
the advisers of the Mikado have evil
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