To the Editor of the "Norta-Cura Dairy News."
Sin,—Accuracy of fact being of the virtues to which your paper rightly lays claim you will no doubt welcome a correction of a misstatement appearing in to-day's issue under the above heading. The inaccuracy is contained in the statement that "the Japanese stood quite aloof from the rising."
Such a statement belongs to the category of diplomatic "truths" disguised and built up on the foundation of a tangled web, The facts are the following:—When, some months ago, the Kappelists made an attempt to overthrow the then existing Vladivostok regime, the authorities of the latter were sufficiently strong to threaten the Kappelists with imminent destruction. On that occasion the Japanese army in Siberia interfered to the extent of disarming the Communist soldiers in Vladivostok. Thus the Kappelists were saved by virtue of Japanese interference. Even the Japanese will not deny this statement, for it is 2 fact testified to by their own authorities.
The Communists, being now made powerless by virtue of Japanese interference, had no power to check whatever enterprise the Kappelists might indulge in. Time has shown what that enterprise was. The Kappelists being by now fully armed, it was an easy matter for them to overthrow the Communist Government of Vladivostok the other day.
Of course, ''the Japanese did not interfere!" Why should they? Are they not in Vladivostok for the purpose, as you say, of being " a barrier to the spread of Bolshevik propaganda?" Spreading where? Out in the Pacific Ocean or even to the island of Saghalien; for with the spreading of the doctrine westward they cannot very well inter-fore, considering that they are located on the very edge of the Eastern Siberian Continent.
Apologizing for so often "butting" in, but trusting that absviution will be readily extended to an earnest soul.
I an, ete., Gorpivs Nigtsen. Shanghai, June 17.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.