SOVIET SYMPATHIES.
OBVIOUSLY WITH CHINA. LONDON, Aug. IS. Although the Soviet chiefs are maintaining a neutral attitude to the Sino-Japanese conflict, the Moscow Press does not attempt to conceal where its sympathies lie. The Izvestia publishes a cartoon showing a little Japanese officer trying to ride a giant Chinese coolie and getting an unexpected punch on the nose. It is claimed that the Chinese masses are in a new fighting mood, and the quality and quantity of Nanking’s new armaments surprised Japan, but no prophecies' are made about the outcome of the conflict, in which the Soviet will only intervene if the Japanese attempt to invade Outer Mongolia, with which Moscow has 15 a mutual assistance pact. t Moscow believes that Outer Mongolia is the strategic key to the entire Far East, and therefore Japan s ultimate objective some day.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 222, 19 August 1937, Page 9
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