JAPAN AND SOVIET

Hokitika Guardian, 23 September 1933, Page 5

JAPAN AND SOVIET

SHARP PROTEST MANY ACTIVITIES. (United Press Association—Jßy Electrio Telegraph—Copyright). SHANGHAI, -September 22. The latest fcovaet-oapauese moment icons'.® ts of -a sharp Soviet protest against an alleged Japanese intention to reform the existing management of the Chines© Eas-ern Railway. The Japanese are demanding that Manchukuoan officials shaij. have equal (responsibility with Soviet official's. These disputes having arisen, coupled with the failure to come to terms lot the sale by Russia of the railway, Japan now intends to 'seize the railway. In -die meantime, there are additional Soviet activities with-.n the -Siberian (border, and it is reported that there is an unending stream of war material flowing to Blagoveshchensk. Soviet troops are daily parading with gas masks, all of which, L is believed, is for the purpose of dissuading Manchukuo from taking any railway.

JAPAN -STRENGTHENS ARMY

TOKIO, September 22-

Tho Japanese War Office denies that it is its intention to recreate four Army Divisions but- states that 'lt /proposes to improve the Army equipment and to increase its mechanisation efficiency, specially in view of obligations for the defence of Mianchukuo