A CONFLICT POSSIBLE
RUSSIANS AND JAPANESE
AN ILL-DEFINED FRONTIER
(United Press Association) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright)
TOKIO, February 18.
“Fears of an armed conflict betwee* Russia and Japan cannot be entirely dismissed,” declares the semi-official organ, the Japanese Times. “ A vital factor is the presence of two great armed forces about equal in strength confronting each other across an ill-defined frontier. Fears of war are groundless so far as the desires and policies of the Russian and Japanese Governments are concerned, but the psychology of the Russian and Japanese officers in East Asia is very different' from that of the statesmen in Tokio and Moscow. Everything depends on whether the generals are able to hold the officers in leash.”
PROTEST FROM MANCHUKUO
HARBIN, February 18,
The Manchukuo Foreign Minister protested to M. Slavutsky, the Soviet Consul here, against the alleged Soviet arming of bandits. He cited as an instance a Soviet aeroplane (which was supposed to have made a forced landing at Jaoho) handing- over to bandits four machineguns and 2000 rounds of ammunition. M. Slavutsky “ scornfully rejected ” the protest.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22810, 20 February 1936, Page 9
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179A CONFLICT POSSIBLE Otago Daily Times, Issue 22810, 20 February 1936, Page 9
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