CHINA AND SOVIET
ACTIVE WAR PREPARATIONS
POSITION ON FRONTIERS
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph— Copyright).
(Received this day at 8 a.m.) SHANGHAI, August 3(5
China is actively preparing for wai. A Mukden message states Changhsaeslßng. the Manchurian Overlord, lias issued orders for the iininediaii* departure of sixty thousand mixed troops to the Siberian border that divided the eastern and western fronts.
A Harbin message reports unprecedented military preparations, sunported by naval. mobilisation, 'while the manufacture of ammunition 1 n. proesedmg at a feverish pace. Soviet raiding parties continue sudden' visits to, Chinese town's on the border: Tbro-> towns, Caaolisincliin, Ghungshinchin and 1 Canelnuifa'tg were occupied 'by Russians.
jManchuli reports the arrival of two addition f Soviet, divisions ' Veinforced bv cavalry, and labour corps.
A das.airdly Soviet’ plot at Harbin to-day was officially announced. A gang of Reds' plotted to blow up the imp britlpio spanning the Sungari river and destroy the shipyard. The arrest of the plotters led to the disc 'very of a huge cache of arms, machine guns and bombs.
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 August 1929, Page 5
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