OPEN RUPTURE.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 89, 16 April 1927, Page 9

OPEN RUPTURE.

CLASH IMMINENT.

Japanese and Russians in

Manchuria.

SOVIET CONSULS DEPART

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(Received 12.n0 p.m.)

TOKYO, April 13,

Alarming reports come from many points in Manchuria, -where Japanese merchants are refusing everything except _ immediate business. The "Mitsiri Mitsubishi" announces its decision to cease all Russian business.

The Japanese Army is installing a series of radio stations along the Korean border.

The Soviet Consul-General in ITiirliin leaves for Moscow and the Consul at Mukden is preparing to depart.

The Japanese Consuls at Mukden and Harbin are meeting at Changchun for consultation.

The Chinese are reinforcing tho Siberian border guards, while Japanese women and children in the border districts are being evacuated through Harbin and the men are preparing to follow.

Tho Russian Communist Union at Changchun, including Eastern emplovees, is reported to be planning to destrov the engine shed at Kuan Chcn-tze, and to blow up the bridges in the event of the expected war.

All reports from Manchuria bear evidence of a state of extreme nervousness