Harbin, July 30.
According to Captain Halsey) Powell, the Naval Attache of the 'American Legation who has been estimating the situation along the border, neither the Soviet nor the Manchurian authorities have made preparations. for any military' emergency.
Desultory fighting has occurred at} various points between the Soviet troops and small bands of, ""White"
Russians who had crossed the border from Manchuria to Siberia and hidden themselves-in the forests in anticipation of the-arrival of their Red cnomies—Ta Chung.
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