Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1918 — JAPAN BELIEVED READY TO ACT [ARTICLE]

JAPAN BELIEVED READY TO ACT

London, Feb. 27.—The opinion that the time is at hand for Japan to act to check the demoralization <jf Russia is growing here. Japan has a powerful army which could be rushed into Siberia. News coming out of Siberia shows a rapid progress of anarchy. Railroad connection between Petrograd and Vladivostok is reported uncertain. A party of prisoners of war are said to have seized one important section of track, and the Bolsheviki are reported in full control of another. It is believed that Japan could establish order in eastern Siberia with a very small force.