Changchun, Feb. 10.
A mobilization bill to' control. all material and human resources on a war basis_was passed by the Manchoukuo State Council to-day, The bill in many' respects resembles the measure now before the Japanese let United Press, Soviet order Tenston Tokys, Feb. 10, Nearly a million Japanese and Rus-ian soldiers are massed along the border between the Soviet Union and Manehoulkuo. They are prepared for War, reports the United Press star correspondent after a tour of inquiry.
Throughout the Jao summer, the autunin tind early winter, Japan has been keeping up a steady movement of troops and, supplies to northern Manchoukuo, The movement is still Ti the late November the port of Dairen was being used as a Concen-ration urea from which troops could be'seht to the north or to China, At that time the daily average was' four troop or supply trains northward. "Japanese officials say it is necessary. for' Japan to' prepare for - defence against possible independent action by Marshal Vassilli Bluecher and his Far Eastern' Red Army.
"Foreigners" who have watched the ciliation develop from" occasional border incidents to large-scale. war preparations, say there is a definite feeling among some leaders of the Kowantung Army, representatives of Japan's military' might in' Manchou-kao, favouring "a "show-down' against the Soviet while Japan is mobilized for war against the Chinese, 'Marshal -Bluecher may take things Into his own' hands and start "independent "action" against the ironical situation 'Japanese feld officers in the - past started the empire on. some of its most spectacular. military. efforts—at 'Muleden in 1991, at Shanghai 1992 and again in China this year. And in. the resent case "independent action" may' come from the Japanese as well as from the other side of the border.
Marshal. Bluecher is reported to! have moved. his headquarters® from Habarovsk to China to be closer to the" territory where friction may develop,. where. Japanese armed forces are taking over territory fringing} upon Soviet Outer Mongolia.
The United Press correspondent was old on good authority in. Changehun that the Kwantung Army felt the Tientsin garrison showed weakness in its handling of the North China Incidents which led to general Chinese-Japanese hostilities this year. that is true it Indicates that—the Kwantung group would not hesitate Ina Russo-Japanese clash but would strike back with all its foree—United Press.
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