"Before going 1 received special preparation and it was only at the fend of last year that I crossed the: Soviet frontier and afterwards called myself an emigrant. 1 was successful In becoming a stoker in the Jap: nese military divisions, which Ideal for the tasks I" had to car out, namely to collect various Infor-motion regarding the Japanese Army Manchoukuo. However, T was able to get any special information while in this service, because Twas watched very carefully and. besides that T could not understand what was said. Finally circumstances occurred which were not favour ab) for my work near to Japanese troops and T determined to return to the USSR. Through certain persons requested permission from the Harbin Consul-General, Mr. Slovutsky, to Felurn to Soviet territory, which' agreed to. Following this, I made my way towards Pograniehnaya on GER. goods train but was caught on the way.
Maksimovich's information was the}
"The USSR. never had any wish to sell the CER. and the delay in the Tokyo Conference as well as the offer to make a sale to Manchoukuo nothing else than a tactical movement for the purpose of causing delay {nthe critical situation in the Far Bnet. Tt is necessary for the USSR. to gain time to finish its military reparations in the Far East and to complete as much as possible of the second Five Year Plan. Besides this the USSR. requires peace for the Purpose of strengthening Lenin's ideas "amongst the masses which would be quite impossible to do if war broke out "At the present moment the USSR. fg almost ready to begin war with Japan and Manchoukuo and is con-contrating large forces and military supplies in its Far Eastern territory."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.