Soviet Military Activities

Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 6810, 17 March 1932, Page 7

Soviet Military Activities

Along Manchurian Frontier REGULAR TRAFFIC ON RAILROAD CANCELLED New York Times Broadcast. TOKYO, March 16. Soviet military activities along the Manchurian frontier were reported to-day by reliable foreign sources. The Soviet authorities cancelled regular traffic on part of the Ussuri railway, which runs along tho Manchurian frontier, to make way for movements of military forces, the messages said. The Russian officials were said to have declared the military required the use of the railroad as a result of Japanese troop movements toward the Siberian frontier of Manchuria,

New State’s Increasing Troubles New York Times Broadcast . HARBIN, March 16. Warfare in Manchuria, chiefly directed against the Japaneso Government of Henry Pu Yi, appeared to-night to bo spreading along tho north and western frontiers adjoining Soviet Russia. General Ma Chan Shan, the Chinese militarist who defended Tsitsihar from tho Japanese and later joined tho invading forces in setting up the new independent Government, was understood to bo prepared to lead an expedition against the “rebel" or anti-Japanese forces in the districts of Manchouli and Heilio. Both Manchouli, on the western frontier, and Heiho, on the northern, are near the Russian frontier, which is heavily guarded by the reinforced Soviet special Far Eastern Army. Recent indications that Japanese troops were planning to advance near the frontier brought vigorous protests from Moscow.