The Government of the Far Eastern Republic, on behalf of the entire people of the Russian Far East who elected it, requests of the Japanese people and of the Imperial Government of Japan a straightforward and definite answer to each of the following questions:—
1.—Do the Japanese Government and the Japanese people consider just the constant interference of the Japanese Command with the Russian affairs against the will of the Russian people of the Far East?
2.—Will the Japanese Government cor.- tinue to help the criminals and' brigands of the bands of Simionov, Ungern, etc., and put obstacles in the way of the authorities of the Far Eastern Republic in their struggles with these bandits?
3.—Does the Japanese Government consider it necessary to establish friend. ly neighbour ly relations with the Government of the Far Eastern Republic?
4—Does the Japanese Government consider it necessary to protect: the: in-
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