THE following despatch was Staff Correspondent, who Soviet-German border on the las slashed communications. written by Keishiro Iriye, Domei was one of the few to cross the train from Berlin when hostilities Manchouli, July 9, The trans-Siberian train Which brought the Japanese: evacuee party Manchoukuo Builds From Mosgow late ast nigh, ave digg overdue, wat fal of Ron Huge Dam Soldiers whose "eaves had' been tancelled due to the outbreak at Kirin, July 12, Tae Bivlet German hoses, abd Less than three hours by train from who were returning to their' regl~ the. Manchoukuo capital, one of the ments in the Far East, world's biggest dams is in the process 'The majority of troopers, ace of construction, The Kirin, companied by their wives and, Fenyman Dam, situated on the Second were on their way to 'Sungari 21 kilometres upstream from Moscow' fora visit 10 the Soviet Kirin city, will be completed in three capital when the war started, years. It will be only 29 per cent. ini ateba "Ge takes" stan eis Seed. goat were found in abundance all along solid rock, were laid last year, One~ the line, to the western front, {hid of the actual dam has been built, and the power house is expected to Heavily Loaded operate in a small way next year. Figures differ regarding this project's West-bound trains were heavily eventual generating capacity, but loaded with trucks and tractors, as annually it is expected to be more well as large numbers of tanks, than double the output for the whole armoured cars, field artillery, of Manchoukuo in 1039, munition and machine guns, There It Is claimed that the artifeial lake algo were many cars with Meld created by the dam will be the big-Kitehens and of riks headed west, gest of its kind in the world, It will Red Army soldiers going west, how-be nearly 180 kilometres in length, Shans were sauce, Ihave a circumference in the nelgh-"eSageatign stu the service was Dourhood of 2,000 kilometres and a worse up to Omsk, 600 miles cast total surface area of over 500 square Be the Ural nego, from where the Kilometres, About 52,000 persons fautlnes eastward is singlostence, living in 8,000 households in the part Tats Grentyslteteh "of siberian the countryside which will be satya iiord"Oinske "me train flooded by the lake are now being Baa" welt one, (we and ae much evacuated and re-settled elsewhere. Ja'ave hours at atime at isolated Stange, while rains 60° and. 60 cate Bomb Proof Jong, landed with supplies and! the dam itself is 1200 metres in squibment, rumbled past, length and 01 metres high, "Its width
eight metres at the top. Nine million 056 metres at the base and will be The train which usually reaches tons of conerete will li its frame~ Omsk in two days, did not arrive work, Tt will be proof against earth there until noon on July 2, the tremors and against the dangers of sixth day after leaving the Soviet Joe and snow. It will even be bomb capital, roof, it is claimed, From Omsk the line is double Except "in winter months, when tracked and the made up for certain of the work is slowed down, ost time, At Chita, where the Japanese" group was greeted by job, comprising roughly 2,000 Japan—12,000 workmen are employed on shir 'IManchoukuo consular officials, ce' and 10,000 Chinese. Convicts Sengers experienced the first tackle the harder labour, and are paid out, Teaving Chita Station in pitch for their work, darkness, Expenses for this huge enterprise "At a small station 15 minutes will probably touch the ¥150,000,000 from the "Manchoukuo border, a] Mark. Generators and other machin~ Norwegian passenger, who was|ery for power plant and dam were traveling to Shanghai from Berlin, supplied by the United States, Ger-wa taken off the train by the Soviet many and Japan, Westinghouse and authorities "because. his "passport Otto Wolff were' principal suppliers, had expited,"—Domei, Feed Many Cities Axis Nationals to Leave South-west Kunming, July 12.
'The evacuation of about's0 German and allan residents of Yunnan prov-nee, who are mostly missionaries and' employees of the Eurasia Air Lino, is" at present the subject of negotiations In Chungking between {the Chinese authorities and the Ger man Embassy.
Several of the missionaries do not wish to Teave Yunnan, where they have been living for many years, It has therefore been decided that, as during the Great War, they will be allowed to. remain in China—Havas Sir Hubert Wilkins
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