Among items of news that bear on the Sino-Japanese struggle, there an interesting report from Moscow, published by the official "Pravda that the Stalin purge is being carried into the "autonomous Buriat-Mongolian Republic" which lies between Lake Baikal and outer Mongolia. Its Government i& accused of having among his leaders "Japanese spies and other counter-revolutionaries," and of fostering Pan-Mongolian ideas. The men under suspicion include some of the chief people in the local government: their names are far more Russian than Buriat. But is this sort of thing going to spread in Mongolia?
The probability that China is getting, or to get. war supplies from Russia—in which connection the reported release of Noulens and his wife, if true, seems to tell a significant tale—is very generally accepted, Correspondingly there appears a distinct movement in official Nazidom towards the Japanese side. The German—"National-Socialist Education" discusses the instructions that have been given to German teachers on how they shall represent the struggle in China to their pupils.
"Japan's action in Manchoukuo," it is stated, "was necessary, since Manchoukuo is the barrier against Communism. "This is the decisive point. Japan sees Nanking's inability io put an end to Communist propaganda; therefore....the occupation of Manchuria, Inner Mongólia and the Chinese northern provinces is alma at creating a belt controlled by Japan which will prevent the penetration of Communist "poison into the C asses.... Some Consider the Japanese tivity as an Imperialist arbitrary acton" and not "what it really namely self-defence. Japan is fighting for her life."
Altogether the have been composed in Tokyo. one rather wonders whether German exporters will much relish it Japanese purchases of copper are given as the reason for the rise in the spot price yesterday by £10sT4d berton. Accordingly to some reports she bought no less than 1,000 tons. Itis known that earlier in the year in preparation for the war with China she bought largely. In ordinary times she produces a trifle more than half the copper she needs. But this year the percentage of imports has risen enormously.
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