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Lot #4103
ALLIED INTERVENTION IN RUSSIA - SIBERIA Japanese forces in Siberia
1919-20 collection of 29 covers or cards, neatly written-up on twelve exhibit pages, numerous Field Post Office markings, "Japonski komendant in Vladivostok" (Japanese commandant in Vladivostok) handstamp, military markings applied in Khabarovsk, Nikolsk, Pogranichnaya, Manchuli, Chita, Razdolnoye, Spasskoye, Ushumun, Verhneudinsk, Blagoveshchensk, Zeya, Nechinsk, Ushumun, Sretensk, etc. In addition, there are FPO markings from the Sakhalin Expeditionary Force (in March 1920, Bolshevik bandits massacred civilians in Nikolayevsk, including some Japanese. In response, the Japanese army occupied northern Sakhalin island), Naval Agency pmks, etc. A most comprehensive collection. (The Japanese deployed 70,000 troops under the command of General Kikuzo Otani and penetrated as far west as Lake Baikal and Buryatia. By 1920, industrial conglomerates such as Mitsubishi, Mitsui and others had opened offices in Vladivostok, Khabarovsk, Nikolayevsk-on-Amur and Chita, bringing with them over 50,000 civilian settlers. After the international coalition withdrew its forces, the Japanese army stayed and continued to support Admiral Kolchak, later Ataman Semenov, whose government collapsed by 1922. In March and April 1922, the Japanese Army repelled large Bolshevik offensives against Vladivostok. Japanese casualties from the Siberian Expedition included some 5,000 dead from combat or illness, and the expenses incurred were in excess of 900 million Yen)
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