Sept. 28.
Tue breakdown of the Changchun Conference leaves matters in Siberia in a peculiar if not impossible situation. As has already been pointed out the Japanese people—the merchant and industrial classes on whom the weight of taxation falls—have shown that they desire a conclusion once and for all of the expensive Siberia adventure on which their Government embarked. After a very prolonged series of discussions with, representatives of the Far Eastern Republic ut Dairen, some manner of basis had been reached on which final arrangements for this could be made when -the plenipotientiaries of the two countries should meet at Changchun. The intrusion of Mr. Joffe, however, into the conference immediately suggediied complications, and now @ deadlock has taken place. Before proceeding to deal with the bulk of the points at issue between the two countries, the Russian delegates at the conference insisted on learning the date when Japan would definitely withdraw from North Saghalien, and they declined to accede to the view of the Japanese delegates that a tentative agreement had already been reached with the representatives of the Far Eastern Republic,- that that event should be-dependent on a
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