Moscow, Aug. 6. HE Soviet Union yesterday staged a nation-wide celebration of Russia's alleged victory over Japan at Changkufeng a year ago, featuring the celebration with a defiant challenge to Japan. The celebration was broadcast over a nation-wide radio chain extending 6,000 miles from Leningrad to Lake Khassan in the Far East, Our Soviet troops at present are fighting the provocaters in Outer Mongolia in the spirit expressed by the words of our Commissar for Defence, M. Klementi. Voroshilov," the principal radio speaker said.
"Those words were twenty dead for each Soviet soldier killed', The main speaker was" Capt. Moshloak, Soviet hero who is credit.
with' having planted the Red flag on top of Changkufeng. He spoke on behalf of Changkufeng veterans now studying inthe Mille tary Institute at Moscow.
Noteworthy was the fact that the speaker said "We send our greetings to our fighting commander, Gen. G. 'M, Stern, chief of the Red Army in the Far East." Reports recently circulated here, it was recalled, had Said Gen. Stern had been removed from his post. The greetings broaa~ cast to him yesterday were believed to have definitely disposed of these rumours.
Radio' receivers in each city Drought the celebrations to. millions of Russians and' broadcasts were made from various towns. Included {in the programme were descriptions from the scene of the Changicuteng Datile, speeches from the graves of those killed at Changkufeng, and a military dramatization in' which Booming cannon could be hear "Long live the Great Stalin," the ictors shouted at the end of
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