Soviet Aid

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 186, 24 August 1937, Page 7

Soviet Aid

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Bk — — PILOTS AT NANKING jVarpIanes Being Atsembled For Cmna RUSSIA'S NEW TECHNIQUE

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(Eeceiyed 24} 8.45 a.m.) LONDON, Aug. 23. Tho Daily Telegrapli's Tokio eorrofpondent says tho newly-arrived Goviot Ambassador virtually confirmed a report that Marshal Blucher is proceeding to Onter Mongblia. Ifc is field that this, plus the axrival of Soviet- trained Mongol pilots at NankiDg, reveals the Soviet 's new teehflique in aiding Chiua. Aid will apparently be extended throagh technically independbnt Outer Mongolia, where Bussians can beeoiao Mongols overnight, telieviflg Moscow from embarxassment. It ia reported that warplanes are belng assembled in Soviet territory for delivery to Naaiing. The Daily Mirror *s WarsaW coffegpOndent says Eussia is sending nowlyinveuted antbairefaft guns td Shanghai from Coflstantinovsk to gtiard the Soviet Consulate against Japanese aggre'ssion. The Soviet Wa t Council has ordered two warships to China. rrom Shanghai it is reported that Japanese warships, including the Idumo, moved to Woosung to cover the landing of reinforcements. Only two destroyers Temain near the Bund. The Japanese Embassy spokesman claims that inore than 50,000 troops landed in the Woosnng and Shanghai distriets duriug the night. The sound of heavy gunlire- from the two fi'onts, whicli Wds heai'd this liioruing at Pelciiig, ilidicated Ibat the Chinese resistance is imexpectedly stiif. The presence of irregulars, led by the notoriOUs LiU Kweitang, is cohfirmed. It is unCertaia which side they are sappofting. The Iatest repoi'ta state that £ghting eeeurred between the Japanese and the irregulafs eotithward of Peking.