Striking Report from Berlin of Plans for Armed Intervention The following translation is made from the Russian paper "ni" which is published in Berlin, and the detail ig which the military preparations of the Soviet are given leales a very careful investiga-ion into the matter:
Early in March Inst, formant succeeded in Zabaikalia and Outer Mongolia as far as the town of Colan-Bator in-elusive. The chief impression made by this journey was the evidence of serious military preparations for interference in affairs in China. Irkutsk, Verkhnyoodinsk, and Chita present the appearance ' of large military depots, There are a great number of automobiles, guns, eros planes and armament' of different categories. The tract Verkhnyood-Croitskosavsk—Colan-Bator thas been turned into a military yond, along which war stores of every description are going into Outer Mongolia, "All the more or less important points along this tract (Nijni-Selenginsk, Troitsko - Savsk, Kiakhta, ete.) look like regular The tract is being formed into a railway, there is being organized along it a line of communication by air with Mongolia, and it is said even further with the Nationalist Anny of General Feng.
The Objectives of the Army Especially significant are the purely military preparations. By order of the "Revolutionary War Council in the Siberian Military District, five infantry divisions have been brought up to war establish: ment, viz., the 12th, 35th, Ist Pacific and ud 'Pri-Amut Divisions,—Be-three cavalry—brigades have been' mobilized. At Chita the [star of an army group has b formed.
From the conversations of the Soviet Commanders, it may be infer red that the plan for the advance {nto Manchuria consists in the concentric movement of two bodies of troops on Teitsihar: from the of the village Mane the Blegovieschensk side, As the furthest objective it is proposed (0 seize Harbin, with the support of the Soviet River Flotilla which can cross from the Amur into the Sun-gan River, Mongolian Army's Role is interesting to note that these military plans, a big dle has een allotted to the Mongolian ional Army, which the Soviet War Department administers as if it belonged to it. This army, numbering ubout 40,000 men, 18 not only trained by' Soviet instructors, bhut also to a considerable extent commanded by Russian Red Oficers ordered out from Moscow or who have passed out of the Special Military School in Erkuts 'The appearance of ie Mongolian military units is exactly like that of the Soviet (cops, and it is really them from those units which one meets in Siberia. The same sharp pointed helmets, the same long coats, the same badges of rank for the' Com manders,
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