Vladivostok, May 1.
The following information regarding conditions prevailing in the island of Saghalien is the gist -of an interview with a group of Russian traders just arrived from there:
There is no Russian authority on the island of Saghalien. At Alexandrovsk there is a Council, presided over by a mining engineer, named Olshevsky, which more or less takes the place of the municipal council. This Council serves as the intermediary between the Japanese Command and the Russian population, but as the Council is composed of people acceptable to the Japanese Command and not to the Russian population, the attitude of the latter towards it is of a negative character.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.