RUSSIA WARNS JAPAN
PENALTIES OF WAR SOVIET FORCES STRENGTHENED t (Received 9 a.m.) MOSCOW, February 4. In the course of . a speech at. the Communist Congress, the Commissar of War, M. K, 0. Voroshiloff, warned Japan as follows: J “A War against us would be long and . hard, and will cost dear those who start it, , ■ ; . “During the. past two years Stalin and the central committee 1 have given their entire attention to the strengthening of our Far Eastern navy.; , ’ ‘ “The Red Army is now the -most highly mechanised force in _ tho worlll.” , • . . •C. CONCILIATION PREFERRED. SOVIET MOTIVE OBSCURE, , (Received 2 p.m.) TOKTO, February 5. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, H. Hitota, told the Lower House that he had not rejected outright the Soviet’s proposal for a non-aggression pact. The Soviet’s underlying objective wag obscure. He' would prefer to discuss a conciliation pact after outstanding questions had been settled, and " then a pact W'ould possibly be ‘unnecessary*
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Northern Advocate, 6 February 1934, Page 7
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