SOVIET SUPPLIES
SHIPMENT BY AMERICA
OVER VLADIVOSTOK ROUTE
NEW TOKIO WARNING
TOKIO, August 12. The Government spokesman, Mr. Ishii, at a Press conference, again warned the United States that Japan was "urgently concerned" over a shipment of supplies to Vladivostok, although he denied thait there had been any formal warning. He emphasised that Japan desires to maintain peace in the Pacific, and therefore American | shipments of war supplies to Russia would be "very embarrassing." Informed Japanese quarters assert that any American effort to supply large quantities of war materials to Russia's Far Eastern armies is likely to meet with vigorous opposition from. Japan and might even involve American ships in Japanese naval action. Japan is reported to have trebled her normal garrison of 250,000 troops in Manchukuo.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 38, 13 August 1941, Page 7
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127SOVIET SUPPLIES Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 38, 13 August 1941, Page 7
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