"Indelible Grudges"
Mr. Katsuji Fuse, special correspondent of the "Osaka Mainicht," kas returned to Manchuria after extremely adventurous journeys in Russia. During his stay in Moscow Mr. Fuse sent many despatches his journal including his interws with Lenin and other nicipal members of the Soviet Government, but much of his correspondence failed to see the light owing to the great trepidation displayed by the Japanese press censor on Bolshevist affairs. Mr. Fuse's latest despatch to his paper is from Changchiakou dated August 1 and describes the wide spread anti-Japanese feeling among the Russians throughout Siberia.
"In entering Siberia from European Russia," writes Mr. Fuse, "T was struck with the rampancy of a rabid anti-Japanese sentiment among the Russians. All the newspapers east of Omsk are devoting most of their space to the attack of Japan and endeavouring to heighten the Russian feeling against Japan. From the tone of the newspaper articles it would appear that the Russians want to vent their grudges against Simionov and Kalmikoff on Japan. The papers consider that these Russian Generals are fit companions of Japan. Even the head of the Verkhne-Udinsk Government openly declares that the Japanese troops in some parts of Siberia will be exterminated by the Partians with the "arrival of winter. On the night before I departed from Moscow despatches were received from the Verkne-Udinsk Governnient to be addressed to the British, American, French and Italian' Premiers through the Moscow Government. The purport of; this official communication was to the effect that as the present chaos and difficulties in Siberia are largely duc to the interference Japan it will be necessary to restrain her action for the salvation of the Siberian people.
"Whereas great danger and inconvenience attend the travel of Japanese in Siberia—much less their economic development in the territory—the Chinese are continuing business in the buffer zone unmolested or unhampered despite the prevailing unsettled state of affairs. The. steady extension of influence by the Chinese in Siberia is quite interesting in view of the act that they had long been maltreated by the Russians. What has impressed me most in my travel though Siberia is the fact that the blundering Japanese policy in Siberia during the last two years has left indelible grudges against [Japan in the minds of the Russians."
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