Aug. 20.
Despatches from Harbin- states thatthe number of Chinese troops} fon the Sino-Russian border and along the Chinese Eastern Railway is increasing and that they are assuming a more truculent attitude compared with the passivity they have maintained up to the present, Tt is worthy of note, the despatches add, that the Chinese authorities are circulating reports detrimental to the Soviet through the medium of the radio and the press, alleging that Soviet troops have been guilty of incendiarism, Tooting and incursions into Chinese territory.
mastage from Manchuli states that, fearing an outbreak of hostilities, the Russian and Chinese merchants there have already withdrawn. The Japanese merchants fare prepared to follow their example, but this is due to business depression rather than to any apprehension that a clash between China and the Soviet is imminent.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.