Soviet Asks Tokio to Put Cards on Table
PACT SUGGESTED NEW YORK, Aug. 12. The Shanghai correspondent of The Times learns that Soviet representatives have gone to Tokio definitely demanding that Japan should put her cards ou the table and conclude a nonaggression pact with the Soviet without reservation clauses which might be interpreted as of benefit to either in the unusual circumstances. The signing of such an agreement, says the correspondent, would immediately divorce Japan from the Axis Pact. Although Japan has been rushing extra troops to Manchuria, and she is now estimated to have 350,000 there, the Far Eastern Soviet armies with headquarters at Vladivostok, Khabarovsk and Chita are estimated to number at least half a million. These armies are absolutely independent of European Russia ns regards arms, munitions, uniforms, food and repair bases and are reported to be superior to the Japanese forces.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 192, 14 August 1941, Page 5
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