RELATIONS IN EAST.
RUSSIAN INFLUENCE. (Times Cables). Received March 25. 1.5 p.m. LONDON, March 24. The Times Shanghai correspondent states that Russian-inspired agitation to expel British interests from Southern Sinkiang has resulted in edicts in Tvhotnn and Yarkand ordering British Indian traders to surrender their goods and depart within a week. Agitators have boycotted the British Consulate-General at Kashgar and assaulted the Chinese servants and molested the couriers. A weekly Chinese-Russian air service has begun from Chungking. JAPANESE AGGRESS!ON. A Japanese party landing from warships has captured Wucheng. The Chinese resisted desperately for four days. The Japanese who crossed the Yellow River at Honan claim that they have forced the Chinese back to Chenghow.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 98, 25 March 1939, Page 10
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114RELATIONS IN EAST. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 98, 25 March 1939, Page 10
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