Harbin, Oct. 18.
The arrival of so many new Japanese troops to these parts is causing a great deal of uneasiness to all residents of the C. E. R. area. In addition to the lith Division which recently arrived at Vladivostok, a large number of fresh Japanese troops have occupied the extensive barracks at Changchun and Kunchuling. According to local Russian newspapers the amount of troops there available to be thrown on to the Chinese Eastern Railway at a minute's notice is close on 60,000. At several stations along the Eastern Railway section between Harbin and Pogranitchnaya are now also located considerable numbers of Japanese troops who, according to the reports given out by Japanese officers, have been sent there to be drilled, they being recent recruits.
There seems no doubt that the higher Japanese military authorities still hope that the numerous wall armed and strong bands of Hunghutze who infest the forests east of Imanpo will be more than a match for the Chinese soldiers who are guarding this section of the railway
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