Tokyo, Dec. 17.
Conversion of the north-western provinces of China, including Shensi and Kansu, into a "Soviet armed carp" was reported in a dispatch reaching here today from Sinchiachwang.
Quoting a reliable source, the message said officials of the Chiang Kai-shek regime had admitted that Soviet assistance to China was increasing, The message said 100 Soviet sharp" shooters, 26 heavy guns, tractors and 20 motor lorries of Soviet" make arrived at Hwaiyin, west of Tungkwan in Shensi province, from Sian, capital of Shensi, on November 26, During the early part of November many Soviet surveyors were reported to have arrived in Sian and surveyed districts there in preparation for con. struction of the so-called "red route" between Paoki in western Shensi and Lanchow, capital of Kansu, Soviet planes piloted by Soviet aire. men have flown into Kansu from Russian territory and marks on them Were chanel o Chinese Nationalist emblems at Lanchow, the further claimed,
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