The Archive · 1938

Soviet Building New Railway

Suiyuan, Mar. 14.

Mongolian travellers revealed here: to-day that the Soviet authorities have started constructing a new railway linking Urga, capital of JOuter "Mongolia, Kuyen in north Ninghsia, Kanchow and Lanchow in /Kansu, north-west China. Soviet railway construction already is under way in Sinkiang province.

Several hundred Soviet troops: invaded. Kuyen in the middle of January, seized. several native princes, expelled Mongolian residents couth-ward and started to bulld an aerodrome in great haste, the travellers said, 'A. motor road also was opened, between Kuyen and Kanchow, and it has been used {0 transport aircraft, arms and) ammunition" from the [Soviet Union to China, the same sources reported—Domei.

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