Harbin, Mar. 15, General Honjo, Japanese commander-in-chief in "Manchuria, at-rived in Harbin yesterday evening, travelling from. Mukden by air.
There is now a considerable concentration of Japanese forces here, reliable estimates giving the figure as 16,000 men, The new Manchukuo government hag issued instructions to the control department of the Chinese Eastern Railway to take steps immediately to establish what rolling stock and railway supplies have recently been sent to Russia, It is presumed that this is a preliminary fo the despatch of a demand. to Russia for the return of this roll: ing stock and supplies.
It is Tearned that the mutiny of the Chinese garrison at_ Manchuli has now been quelled. Looting is still going on, Japanese Plane Forced Down reported. in Soviet circles here to-day that a Japanese'plane flying over Soviet territory east of Pogranitehnaya was forced to land by' eight Soviet aeroplanes.
'The Tapanese military authorities are reported to have" asked—the board of the Chinese Eastern Railway for wagons te transport troops to Manchuli, as an attack against that city by' Chinese troops hostile to the new regime is feared.
Japanese residents at " Manchuli ave being evacunted—Reuter,
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