SOVIET & JAPAN
DISPOSITION OF BORDER FORCES STRENGTH OF THE RUSSIAN ARMIES. DENIAL OF ARMED CLASH. LONDON, August 7. An authoritative spokesman, referring to the Russo-Japanese position, said the Russian Army in Siberia was composed of three main bodies. The first is in the Baikal military district, the second in the Maritime provinces around Vladivostok, and the third on the Amur border. The total strength is roughly 1,009,000 men and the force is believed to be mechanised in the same proportion as the Red Army opposing Germany. The Japanese have about 250.000 men in Manchukuo and northern Korea and are also massing what may be a striking force between Harbin and the northern border of Korea. The Japanese could reinforce their armies through Port Arthur and Dairen. The Moscow spokesman, ’ M. Lozosky, denied reports that Russian and Japanese forces had clashed on the Manchukuo frontier. Fie added that relations between Russia and Manchukuo and. Russia-’and Japan were unchanged.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 August 1941, Page 5
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