Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1920 — 700 JAPS ARE KILLED [ARTICLE]

700 JAPS ARE KILLED

REDS SLAY TROOPS AND CIVIL. lANS IN SIBERIA BATTLE. Soviet Envoy at Vladivostok Announces Peace Proposals Between Russia, Japan, China and U. 8. Honolulu, T. H., April 2. —Seven hundred Japanese troops and Civilians were killed in a two-day battle with Russian bolshevik forces at Nlkolaesvsk, Siberia, according to a Tokyo cable dispatch received by the Japanese newspaper Nlppu Jujl here. Vladivostok, April 1. —Proposals for peace betweenl soviet Russia and Japan, China and the United States are announced here by M. Vllenski, bolshevik envoy who recently arrived here from Moscow. The soviet government gives a pledge not to carry on propaganda in America, recognizes Japan’s “special interest” in the far fast and renounces all claims to concessions in China. All Siberia will be put under the soviet form of government on April 1, when the communist party opens its convention at Nikolsk, near here. Twothirds of the districts in the eastern part of the country have already adopted the soviet system, and the Zemstvo governments are ready to hand over control*without resistance, it is said.