This map graphically portrays the strategic struggle between Soviet Russia and Japan in the Far East. While fighting on a scale approximating a major engagement is proceeding in the vicinity of Buir Noir on the Outer Mongolia-Manchoukuo boundary, the political battlefield swings to Sakhalin. There the Japanese have extensive oil and coal concessions in the northern part of the island which are subject of negotiations and protests as the Japanese claim the Russians are interfering with the Jeltation of these concessions, Between the military and the political aspects, a situation of unusual tenseness exists and might lead to more serious developments, This. map shows. other features not generally known to the student of Far Eastern affair On the mainland from Sakhalin, or Karafuto as the Japanese term it, is Sovietskaia Harbour, the only important Russian ice-free port Between Wikolaevsl: and Vladivostok.
Another smaller ice-free port is De Castric's Harbour, on the coast near Mariinsk, m the Amur River, south of Nikolaevsk Soviet Russia plans to link this with Mariinsk by canal, but it is feared this project might divert the course of the Amur River, Dominating the situation in the north is the new North Siberian Railway, which is reported to have been completed after two years with the aid of forced labour provided by political prisoners. 'Strategically, this railway, if completed, transforms the entire Far Eastern scene as far as Soviet Russia' and Japan are concerned.
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