The Manchoukuo army now includes cavalry in its anti-bandit operations. terrain, mounted troops move to better advantage than the infantry and are a decided factor in suppressing non-Government forces. lon of labour and materials in the event of an emergency also follow the Soviet pattern, In thus" deliberately planning 2 Manchoukuo prepared for war the Japanese are lat least consistent, For their spokesmen. remain intensely Gistrustful of Soviet intentions, those empire-builders, a" Japanese army is always a defensive weapon, while a Soviet force is necessarily offensive, Hence the "sleep with your rifles ever Feady" orders to ths Kwantung Army. Hence a border zone beginning at Harbin which has turned all the country north and east fof that city into terra. incognita which Is being rected a. full-scale, replica of the Western Front. (i017). Hence the spy-scare and the recent reinforcement of the army of oceupation. "Hence the state of tension which is none the less trying because informed observers are satisfied thers no valid reason for it.
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