That creates an ironical because "independent action" by Japanese field officers in the past started the empire on some of its most spectacular military efforts—at Mukden in 1931, at Shanghai 1932 and again in China this year. And in the present case "independent action" may come from the Japanese as well as from the other side of the border.
Marshal Bluecher is reported to have moved his headquarters from Habarovsk to China to be closer to the territory where friction may develop, where Japanese armed forces are taking over territory fringing upon Soviet Outer Mongolia.
The United Press correspondent was told on good authority in Changchun that the Kwantung Army felt the Tientsin garrison showed weakness in its handling of the North China incidents which led to general Chinese-Japanese hostilities this year. It that is true it indicates that the Kwantung group would not hesitate in a Russo-Japanese clash but would strike back with all its force.—United Press.
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