MOVEMENT OF TROOPS

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 102, 3 May 1933, Page 9

MOVEMENT OF TROOPS

MANCHUKUO FRONTIER

RAILWAY CONTROVERSY

CHINESE FORESEE CLASH

United Press Association— By Electric It!* graph—Copyright. (Received May 3, 10 a.m.) PEKING, May 2. A grave view of the Chinese EasN crn Railway controversy arising , froth the detention of rolling stock which nominally concerns only Rus* sia and Manchukuo, but is actually a dispute between Russia and Japan, . is taken by the Chinese Press. The papers state that .three Japanese divisions are now concentrated in North Manchuria, while large bodies. of Russian troops are moving across Siberia to the Maritime Provinces. Reliable foreign advices confirm tho report. that Japanese' troops aw withdrawing from Jehol to Harbin. Harbin dispatches state that the Russian authorities have ordered their nationals to hold themselves in readiness for any eventualities. The Chinese newspapers interpret thesa developments as indicating that a second Russo-Japanese conflict is inevitable. A Shanghai message says that Manchukuo has given the Soviet until May 10 for the return of locomotives and rolling tnstock. Tho Soviet announces its determination not to accedo to the request, consequently it is withdrawing the Soviet Customs branches at Manchuli and Pogranichn»ya. Russian troops are showing some activity beyond Manehuli, and aero*. planes arc living over Manchukuo terri? - tory. ' _,