Vladivostok, Oct. 16.
The White front has collapsed.
Nikolsk has been abandoned. The White troops are evacuating to Possiet Bay. sin The Japanese are temporarily preventing the entry of the Reds into Vladivostok until the completion of the Japanese evacuation.—Reuter.
Tokio, Oct. 16.
A lengthy statement given out by the Premier's Office says:—"The report that the Japanese {military authorities have disposed jof seized arms in Siberia and are guilty of am action which runs counter to the policy of the Government is altogether unfounded."
The statement gives in detail the conditions under which the Japanese Expeditionary Force in April, 1920, took over the control of 300,000 tons of arms and munitions, over which, (the statement declares, the Force has since maintained the strictest guard. These remain entirely intact in 170 warehouses and also in the open area several miles around vladivostok. The statement con-
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