JAPANESE TROOPS
STRENGTH IN MANCHURIA. f RUSSIAN FAR EASTERN FORCES. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.25 a.m.) RUGBY, October 17. Information available in • London shows that the strength of Japanese troops in Manchuria probably is 500,000, having been doubled by gradual reinforcements since the German invasion of Russia. If Japan had to. draw on Korea or Japan itself for additional troops, probably the maximum number she is capable of transporting would be a further 500,000. It is estimated that at the time of the German invasion of Russia the latter had an army of about 1 000,000 on the Far Eastern front.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 October 1941, Page 5
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