Harbin, July 15.
Though in Harbin there is little known of what is going on at present in North China, it is evident from troop movements through the city, on the railway lines and en the Sungari, that the Japanese are transferring many of their soldiers to the north of China or to Chahar and Jehol. Many bombing aeroplanes, which have during the past few months been stationed along the Soviet frontier, have also been removed, this rather leading to the supposition that the Japanese are not at all raid of being attacked by the Soviet Union, 1
In this respect there are some who wonder why the Japanese made an tack on ihe Soviet Amur flotilla few weeks ago, and whether this was a feeler as to whether the Soviet would take strong measures, or would allow the matter to fizzle out by protests only. How many the Japanese lost on that occasion, is not known, but there was a funeral of two Soviet men held at Blagovi chens, at which in speeches, it was said that the comrades swore to avenge them.
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