SOVIET'S POSITION
CHINA CONFIDENT
REPORTED JAPANESE OFFER
CHUNGKING, November 26.
American newspaper correspondents ascertained that the free, China Government expresses complete confidence that M. Stalin will refuse to make any deal' with Tokio which would lessen Soviet aid to China or release the Japanese army that is at present immobile in Manchuria and Mongolia for use against China in other areas.
It is understood that Lieut-General Tatekawa, the Japanese .Ambassador in. Moscow, has' acttilly suggested total demilitarisation of the Siberian-Man-churian border, in exchange for which Japan would cede the major portion of north- Manchuria .o Russia. This would relieve Japan of a surprise attack from Siberia and would also release many divisions and planes for use in a southward push.
North Manchuria, except for its strategic importance, has been a costly disappointment to Japan. The colonisation schemes there have been an utter failure. The gold and other mineral deposits are'repprted to be unimpressive. The forests have not repaid the work on them and the 1940 crops have failed.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 129, 27 November 1940, Page 8
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