Nanking, May 18.
stirring appeal from the people of the North-eastern provinces (Manchuria) has just been received here through an emissary, who managed to smuggle it through the Great Wall at great personal risk.
The statement, addressed to the elders of the country, warns the Government against acceding to the Japanese demand for the restimption of postal and railway communication with the puppet "Manchoukuo," and urges the nation to make prepurwtions for the defence of the nation and the recovery of the occupied territories—Kuo Min.
'Observers here also declare that the Russians, having regained much'
their lost prestige through slandering Japan to their heart's content, fare salisfled for the time being to Tet things remain where they are. In. the first place the concentration of their troops along the Soviet-Manchoukuo border and their war planes In Vladivostok, Irkutsk, and Blagoveschens was a defensive measure, it {is pointed out even by such rea us Gen, Kolso. Ths USSR. recording to Japanese experts, has never been in a position where it would afford to take the aggressive against this country.
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