Changchun, June 26, The stoppage of German trame on the trans-Siberian railway is rapid~ ly being felt in German circles throughout" Manchoukuo, who are now partially isolated from—their. fatherland, Their businesses have sled "and their correspond: ence to and from "Germany" will now fake months instead of weeks, number of Germans arriving from the United States and South America'en route to Germany have been compelled to change their plans and find temporary accommodation Jin the Far East, Several Germans who had reached Manchouli were warned in the nick of time before crossing the Russian border, "The next fow months will doubt= less see the Far East crowded with German evacues from the western hemisphere—Reuter, "Defeat Does Not Mean End of Stalin"
"Truruga, June 24, Defeat in war will nol necessarily overthrow of Stalin's re-ime, de Mr. Tadashi Shigemori; private secretary of Lieut. Gen, Yoshitsugu Tatekawa, Japanese Ambassador' to Moscow, who arrived from Vladivostok aboard the Harbin Maru after visiting 13 countries in the Near East and eastern Europe.
Mr, Shigemori expressed the belief that the Soviet forees will prove inferior in moral. equipment, and pre-arendness to the Germans "AL the time I departed from Mos-id cow, T saw no dugouts, and there was no ' light control.
The general situation way calm in the Soviet capital, "There war no requisitioning of trucks by the army as at the time lof the Soviel-Finnish conflict, and fu fact there was nothing to indict the swiftly approaching crisis.
However, as I travelled as far as the Baikal region, there was Jncreasing activity of Soviet mechanic fed forces, and also display of posters calling for war nurses.
According to Mr. Shigemori. there was up to the last moment, the gon-eral feeling among Russians that Hitler never would attack Soviet territory.
"This having been the case, I do not hesitate to say that the resent hostilities must have been deadly blow to the leaders of Stalin's re-
On the other hand, Mr, Shigemori said It would be inesrreci to assume that Stalin was unprepared for a Jong term struggle, oF that Stalin's regime did not command Unton-wide confidence of the Soviet people, "The purge has had its effect in both cases," Mr. Shigemori said.
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