The Archive · 1936

Japanese Battering Ram

The situation Is fraught with extreme danger further aggravating the ames of war that have already been ignited, for it Is unlikely Japan and Manchoukuo will compromise while Soviet Russia and Outer Mongolia, vern bent on preventing the batter rom from making any dent in what they consider their wall. Large areas are in dispute.

The only ray of hope is in the tacit attitude of the Kwantung Army that major clash. with the Soviet Army should be averted, partly by patiently prolonging deliberations on Siberian frontier issues. Viewed from the vantage point of Dairen, it seems that the Soviets as well as the Kwar tung Army will be content if the Mongolia-Manchoukuo fracas Is between the pawns only and that efforts are not altogether being withheld from finding some tenable solution.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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