JAPAN AND MANCHURIA.
COUP D'ETAT FORETOLD. WAR WITH RUSSIA LIKELY. SENSATIONAL RUMOURS. WARNINGS TO TRAVELLERS. SIBERIAN LINE UNSAFE. 'By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received May 2, 5.25 p.m.) Sun. LONDON. May 1. The Paris correspondent of the Daily News says that for the pest fortnight the British Foreign Office has been secretly warning intending travellers against using tho trans-Siberian railway. The French Foreign Office is now acting in a similar manner. Le Matin predicts a Japanese coup d'etat in China, which it says will involve t*he occupation of Harbin (Central! Manchuria) and the seizure of the Eastern Chinese railway. The paper says a war between Japan and Russia would in that case be inevitable. It also expresses the opinion that Britain and Japan are waiting for word from Washington before jointly striking against the Chinese Bolsheviks.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19626, 3 May 1927, Page 9
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