SOVIET ACT OF WAR.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 10 September 1929, Page 8

SOVIET ACT OF WAR.

TOKIO HOPES FOE BEST. Received Tuesday, 2 a.m. TOKIO, Sept. 9. Official advices confirm the advice •that five Soviet airplanes yesterday bombed a station on the eastern border of Manchuria, resulting in 28 casualties. Eusso-Ohinese lighting has hitherto been confined to sporadic raids by irregulars, of which both sides have been magnifying reports for propaganda purposes.

Tokio officials do not believe actual warfare is likely and are still hopeful of an ultimate settlement without the necessity for outside intervention. REPRISALS AGAINST CHINESE. Received Monday," 7 p.m. RIGA, Sept. S. The Soviet has sent a Note to the German Embassy at Moscow, reproaching Germany for insufficient energy in the defence of Soviet subjects interned in China and regretting that Germany's efforts unsuccessful in terminating the inhuman treatment of prisoners, because it had been hoped that German goodwill would induce China to cease beheading, beating and chain ing starving Russians and relieving other hardships. The Soviet has information of execution without trial of dozens and the mutilation of corpses. The Note announces the Soviet's intention of doing the same to Chinese in Russia. It declares dozens of Soviet subjects in Manchuria were executed in the most barbarous fashion and the headless bodies thrown into the Sungarie river. It further alleges that interned Russians were tortured and imprisoned under insanitary conditions.