ANTI-SOVIET SPY UNITS
FORMED BY JAPANESE
(Rec. 9.3 oa.m.) LONDON, Aug. 2S. Japanese formed anti-Soviet terrorist and spy units composed of White Russian emigres after Germany invaded Russia in 1941, according to the testimony of Lieutenant-General Bakshaev before the Moscow Military Court.
He was one of the eight leaders of the White Russian organisations in the Far East who pleaded guilty to charges of plotting against the Soviet. Bakshaev said the Japanese continued to use such units until 1945, although they could not fully furnish them with arms and equipment which were scarce.
Bakshaev, who fought in the RussoJapanese war as a Czarist officer, gave evidence that he made long and vain efforts to resist the Communist victory in Siberia. Before the Second World War he organised with the Japanese to help five regiments of Cossacks and two artillery units in Manchuria to fight against the Soviet.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 66, Issue 272, 29 August 1946, Page 5
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