It would be interesting if Tokio} would define the future policy of Japan in dealing with the Siberian situation. The many conflicting rumours of probable Japanese action make one believe that there is as yet no definite policy arrived at by Japanese statesmen, or we had better say Japanese.' militarists. Everyone is now waiting anxiously for an announcement of Japan's attitude towards the revolutionary government that is now in practical control of the whole of Siberia.
The Chinese are more deeply interested in the outcome of the Siberian situation than the people of Europe and America, for they see in it the possibility of a real menace to the peace of the Republic. It is not the Russian Bolshevik that the Chinese fear, but the manner in which Japan may determine to fight Bolshevism. Up to the present there has been no indication of unfriendliness to China upon the part of Bolshevist Russia, and as long as the revolutionaries of that country confine their activities to purely Russian territory, the Chinese Will never protest.
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