60,090 Troops Said to Be Ordered from Mukden to the Frontier:
Warlike Demonstrations in Moscow The war conds appear undoubtedly to be sett on the frontier. Marshal Chang Heueh-liang is reported to have ordered 60,000 troops to proceed to the Siberian border.
Our market report (p. 259) notes considerable inquiry during the past few days by Chinese army agents for woollen blankets and grey khaki for oticers' uniforms.
Reports are received of warlike popular demonstrations in Russia and of volunteers flocking to join the army.
Soviet forces are said to have captured a Chinese onthe Sungari, but this it is thought may be operations against White marauders.
'A serious Red plot to blow up the Sungari bridge in Harbin has been nipped in the bud.
Soviet authorities had been spreading the report that the Chinese Government was preparing not only te take over the Chinese Eastern Railway, but also the important Russian' seaport of Vladivostok. The Soviet troops, according to Mr. Usu, are fully prepared for act being well equipped and alread concentrated at strategic position Russia, however, is stated to be present facing a serious food shortage. A prolonged war, therefore, vould be disastrous to Russia—
Reuter.
The Fruitless. Conferences Tokyo, Aug: 16.
According to despatches from Harbin, Mr. Tsai Yang-hsiung, the Commissioner for Foreign Affairs at Harbin and one of the three Chinese representatives at the chub conferences left for the south following his arrival at Harbin report on the attempt made by: the Chinese delegates to open negotiations with the Soviet, The representative of the National Government, Mr. Chu Shao-yang, is. remaining in'* Harbin, ostensibly to await the reply of the Soviet Government to the Chinese proposal for a formal conference, though he does not seem to anticipate that the Soviet Government will comply.—Reuter.
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