WAR SCARE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 253, 26 October 1933, Page 7

WAR SCARE.

FAR EAST FRONT.

TROOP MOVEMENTS.

Reports of Russo-Japanese

Concentrations.

FORCES MASS ON FRONTIER. United P.A.—Electric Telegraph-rCop.vright) V SHANGHAI, October 25. Alarming reports of troop movements continue to reach Shanghai through foreign travellers from Siberia. These .reports indicate that the Soviet is steadily massing forccs 011 the KussoManchukuo border, while Mancliukuo and Japanese troops are gradually concentrating in Mukden, Changchun and Harbin. Officials maintain that these movements are merely preparation for launching an offensive against bandits. It is reported also that the Soviet is speeding up the construction of heavy defence works along the border, where fortifications have been erected on the northern bank of the Heilung-Kiang River over a distance of 30 miles on both sides of Blagovetcliensk." Forts are being built at three points.

HELD BY BANDITS.

American Missionary Released

After Six Months.

1000 JAPANESE CAPTIVES,

(Becclvcd 10 a.m.) PEKING, October 25. Seized at the point of the revolver last April by bandits posing as patients, an American medical missionary, Nils Neilsen, lias been released after more than six months' captivity in Manchuria. Another foreigner, who was held in Central China for two years, is now believed to have perished. Authorities state that 1000 Japanese are still in the hands of bandits.