JAPAN CONCERNED

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 25, 22 October 1937, Page 5

JAPAN CONCERNED

Likely Mongolian Aid for China RUSSIAN-TRAINED TROOPS (Received 22, 8.45 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 21. A message from Tokio says that Japan is concerned at tho, increasiug aerial and military activity on tho Manchukuo and Korean frontiers. All the newspaper dispatches from Shanghai state that M. Stalin has agreed to Outer Mongolia resuming allegiance to Nanking so that Russiantrained Mongols may be released against Japan without involving Russia. A Peiping message states that a semiofficial Japanese statement i'qreshadows the ..creation of an inner-Mongolian State as a buffer between Nortli China and the Sovietised Outer Mongolia. The statement asserts that following the Japanese military successcs in tho Suiyan. province many Mongolian leaders offered to co-operate and aid in the . . —

emancipation of the Mongols from Chinese thraldom and oppose the southward march of Communism. Prince Tehwang, tho chief of the Mongols in the autonomous province of Chahar and the commander of the Mongol armies, is mehtioned as the probable head of the proposed StatA He already has visited the Japanese Ambassador at I'otow to thank him for the Japanese deliverance of Suiyan aud has assured him of the Mongols' asgistance in ensuring lasting peaee, cheeking alike the Chinese militarist^ and CoinmUnists. Observers point out that the campaign in Suiyau was skilfully mano6uvred to enat-le tho Mongols to take the credit for victories while the Japanese troops remained in the background.