All Sorts of Claims on Japan:
Treaty not an Alliance London, Jan. 31.
The diplomatic correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" says that, notwithstanding the friendly lorations of the Japanese Forei Minister, Baron Shidehara, to Brit-fain, the sagacious statesmen of Japan are likely to be embarrased by the flamboyant talk emanating from the Soviet Foreign Commissar, Comrade Chicherin, and the Bolshevil press that they resurd the whole purpose of the SovietJapanese Agreement as a" Slavo-Asiatic alliance against Europe and America, particularly the Britich En and the United States.
The Riga correspondent of the the con-lusian seme pa lof the Soviet- was signalized by a chauvi out. burst by certain extreme Com: munists in the Soviet press, demanding the return of Bessarabia to Russia—Reuter.
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