to be possible, Is clear from the vast preparations they are making in anticipation of such fan event. According to the accounts of persons who have travelled recently in Siberia, the Russians have cover 300,000 men concentrated at various points of the semi-circle forming the Manchoukuo frontier. The desperate, but belated, efferis they axe making to constitute eastern Siberia a self-supporting country are known to the whole world.
The Japanese are feverishly build ing strategical railways towards the Russian frontier in every. direction, and during the last year are said to have been pouring military stores of every kind into Manchoukuo, Whether all this means anything more than "making faces at each other" is another question. Reasons for such a war would not be hard to find, from either side, though 1 doubt very much whether the breakdown,
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