Gen. Doihara Referred to es Motivating Factor rose Our Own Conearorsex?
Dairen, Feb, 20.
Moj. Gen, Dothara is referred to as "largely" responsible for the organization in Dairen of a branch White Russians' Affairs Bureau, affiliated with similar organizations already establish-. fed in Mukden, Hsinking and Habin. At an inaugural meeting that hes just. been held here, the most prominent persons present were Japanese military and governméht ofoers, On the principal wall above the platform were the portraits of the Emperor and Empress of Japan. The chief of the Dairen branch of the Gen, Dolhars Mukden Military Mission opened the meeting with an order that it be organized.
'A congratulatory message from Gen. Dolhara was read, opening with the words "Japan and Manchoukuo will embrace you all with a warm heart" fand concluding with the advice should exert your wimest for the purpose of attaining your initial objects through the new organization" which he explained could count on the services of the Kwantung Government, the Civil Administration OMice and of the police stations.
Commenting on the organization, the "Manchuria Dally News" edltorial-
"It is very pleasing to note the move has been taken and that it has the full approval of the Japanese Army. It also goes to indicate that the utility of the bureaux at the three principal towns in Manchoukuo (Muk-een, "Hsinking and Harbin) has been proved and that the Japanese are ready to act in a similar way to the Hsinking Government for considering the White Russian residents in the Kwantung Leased Territory as an asset and worthy of assistance."
Organized with the permission of the Dairen Military Mission, each of the Russian officers of the new body signed an aMdavit presented for their signatures by the Chlet of Police. This was_part of the installation service, Heading the lst of officers is Lieut.-Gen, Domitor! Semenoff, His nephew, Ataman Somenoff, was pres ent at the meeting which he brought fo a close with three lusty leads in "banzais."
"The White Russian colony in Dairen estimated at approximately #00 and that for Manchoukuo at 0,000. The latter total reproeents only those who registered them-elves in the national census as White Russians, nearly 45, 000 ax denationalized and 5,000 as naturalized, Comprising as they do a sizeable community without any anchor their fatherland, the White Russian problem looms large as one of the major Issues in the human site of manchoukuo, The decision of the Japanese authorities to help, them with a central organization of their own {s generally regarded as en ate wept to ald the White Russians to rehabilitate: themselves on Man" choukuo sell. The pathetic lament of the White Russians has been: "We have no country we can call our home."
Representative White Russians feel that if they are given a chance to establish themselves here in positions where respect is. not lost that eventually they will be contributing further to Manchoukuo's proud boast that she is the melting pot of five large ractol groups, That feeling may Interpreted as an expression of appredation. The five major races in Manchoukuo to-day include the Man-hus, Japanese, Koreans, Mongols and the Russians.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.