Tokyo, Feb, 29.
Is reported in Tokyo that there now vare about two Soviet Army Corps concentrated round Viadivostok and. about, 100,000 troops, altogether in the Ussuri district. The Higures: are contained in Japan consular reports from the areas ce cerned, Stating that is information, is obtained" from "reliable foreign Sources, the consul declares that numbers of troops are arriving from European Russia and have been doing since. December.
The Consul adds. that foodstuffs land munitions are being transport-fed. eastwards. day and night. While new forts are being hurriedly constructed at Sedanka inthe Amur Another report is that an iodine factory in Olga Bay has been cone verted into "a poison gas factory and that communist volunteers are the consul in his report asserts that Russians considera clash with JJapan is inevitable sooner or later over either the Manchurian or the Kamchatka fishery. questions, They also declare, he says, that Russians characterise the Japane as "detestable as cholera bacteria Reuter.
CER, Consents to Carry Troops Harbin, Keb, 29, to proceed to Imienpo on foot have The Japanese troops intendi
now decided to" entrain, Moscow having' given permission' for the use of the eastern sect railway by the res palas the meantime, i is reported whom the Japanese are oper that General Ting. Chao, against fas Informed" General "Hig new Governor of Kirin under the Japanese, that he in. "oth Into private life °° "relring According to. another 3,000 troops under General Chishsiang, one of General former subordinates, attacked Nin-gots last "night and looted a num:
of houses, the Japanese and Korean residents fleeing. to. Hail from which place they have tell graphed to the" Japanese. con exe asking for protection—Reuter,
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