RUSSIA AND JAPAN

Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 240, 11 May 1933, Page 6

RUSSIA AND JAPAN

Facing the Inevitable LOSS OF PACIFIC DOMINIONS Press Association.—Conyright. London, May 10. "The fact that Russia is willing to sell the Chinese Eastern Railway and maintain comparatively weak forces in the maritime provinces and the Amur region while reserving the best forces in inner - Siberia is unmistakeable proof that Moscow is prepared for the inevitable loss of her Pacific Dominions," says the Daily Express. "It means also," the paper adds, "that sooner or later Vladivostock will be the sole ocean outlet in Russia's Asiatic territories and at the mercy of the Japanese fleet. Japan has won the economic war and the second phase may be as bloodless as the first."