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...handled from Seattle and ports along that coast to Vladivostok, the outpost city of the Union in lower Siberia. This would undoubtedly be very satisfactory but for one important item: Tokio has its gourmandish eyes strongly focused on Vladivostok and the Maritime Provinces, of which it is the keypoint. Back in 1919, shortly after the war, Japan, who had joined the Allies in intervening against the Red government from Archangel, landed about three times its quota of troops and was on the point of annexing Siberia forthwith, and was only stopped by President Wilson, who had the whiphand...
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