The Archive · 1926

CANTON'S NORTHERN EXPEDITION Japan Uneasy at Communists' Successes: Menace from

Russia Behind — From Our Own Comesroxvext

Tokyo, July 28.

The new change in Chinese intern-_ al polities caused by the Kuangtung (South China) expedition against th North is causing apprehension Japan where it is believed that a Feahufling ofthe political board will Taformation has been received here ena Wan Peles army was forced to" return Hankow, te, bate of operations because of the menacing advance of the Kuangting forces ai far 82 Changahas The impression is also gaining in Japan that Soviet Russia is, behind loth the Kuangtung forees and the National Army, and that Russia tirendy dominant in Mongol trying to bring the Northwest Prov. intos of China under her juriedetion, The dominance Ru: has gained in} Mongolia and the plans of the Sovie: \to construct a railway between Chi jand Kulun are regarded by staid and tober papers here ay a "mend the national safety of Japan"; while. ithe reported. arrangement reached [between Feng Yarhslang, the! "Shritian" Solthevik genersl,_and "Moscow in regard to "the "grea! Northwestern Principle" is taken to, mean an attempt to bring Outer! Mongolia and: Sinkiang under one inflaence in order to resist the Wor chang combination.

It is believed here that Russia has! supplied the South with arme.and! munitions and the various allega-' ions of Russian help to China and Interference. with her domestic fairs, the papers think, are well Founded,

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