DETERMINED DRIVE
IN OUTER MONGOLIA
BELIEF IN RUSSIA
(Received December 23, 10 a.m.) '■MOSCOW, December 22. The Manciiukuo frontier trouble (reported on Saturday) is believed to I prelude a determined Japanese drive to seize outer Mongolia". The raiders ,numbered 300, who killed five' and abducted several Mongols', after firing the border station at Ngapur. A Soviet official'report from Khabarovsk states that the Japanese raid was the result of advice sent to the Kwantung army by a Japanese mili.tary attache abroad, who declared that inactivity of the army was construed as a weakness, and urged border raids in Mongolia; even at the risk of war with the Soviet.' • , ~ ■ ■,
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 151, 23 December 1935, Page 9
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107DETERMINED DRIVE Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 151, 23 December 1935, Page 9
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