Warning of Intervention in any Disorder Vladivostok, April 10.
The chief local event of the last 10 days was the attempted coup @etat of March 30/31. This miserable affair was the work of a! few adventurers from Harbin, assisted by a small section of the Grodekovo group. The forces at the disposal of the Vladivostok administration were quite sufficient to quell the rising, and, thanks to the Japanese troops, very little bloodshed resulted.
In connexion with this event, General Tachibana, Commanding the Japanese troops, informed Mr. Prokofieff, President of the Vladivostok National Assembly, that in the event of further disorders of this nature the Japanese would disarm both sides "to main order. He further said that in his opinion such occurrences were due to the lack of a proper democratic system of government.
Mr. Prokofieff then drew the General's attention to the various declarations which the Government has made as to its democratic intentions. The General, however, remarked that the declarations were one thing and the results in actual practice quite another. He also said that the proposal to dissolve the local National Assembly, if carried out, would be additional proof of lack of democratic intentions, and might compel the Japanese to consider the question of policing the district themselves the interests of law and order.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.