FAR EAST DANGERS
RUSSIAN PREPARATIONS BUILDING UP STRONG AIR FORGE Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. t VLADIVOSTOK, February 25. (Received February 26, at 9 a.m.) Although the Soviet is believed to possess thousands of well-equipped troops of all branches, provisioned and munitioned Tor years of warfare, and strategically distributed on tlie SovietManchurian frontier, from station 86, opposite Manchouli, to Grodikovo, opposite Pogranichnaya, it is anticipated that any conflict will be mainly aerial; consequently the Soviet is developing its air service to a point capable not only of repelling an in’vasion, but of counter-attacking with powerful bombers able to cross the sea to Japan with several tons of bombs, terrorising Kobe and Tokio, and causing -havoc in the industrial centres.
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Evening Star, Issue 21655, 26 February 1934, Page 9
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117FAR EAST DANGERS Evening Star, Issue 21655, 26 February 1934, Page 9
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