RAIDING ON BORDER.

Wairarapa Age, 20 August 1929, Page 5

RAIDING ON BORDER.

WHITE RUSSIAN AND CHINESE IRREGULARS CLASH. CONSIDERABLE ACTIVITY BY BOTH SIDES. HEAVY LOSSES REPORTED. United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. SHANGHAI, August 19. While it is definitely untrue that hostilities have broken out between Russia and China, weekend reports show that irregulars on both sides are indulging in considerable raiding activities, while both are unwilling to avert war. The Soviet is afraid of the entrance of White Russians into Siberia, where the peasantry are heart and soul with the Whites. A raid by the Soviet near Manchuli, twelve miles within the Chinese border, resulted in a three hours’ battle, in which twenty-seven Chinese were killed. The Chinese repulsed a cavalry raid. Mongols raided a Chinese town near Hailnr, and were eventually driven off. The Manchurians are preparing for an outbreak of major hostilities. Ten thousand Soviet troops descended on Jalanor, and all day fighting resulted in the Chinese losing sixty killed. The Russian losses are not known.—(Australian Press Association.) RENEWED HOSTILITIES SHANGHAI, August 18. Reports continue to reach Shanghai of renewed hostilities between Chinese and Russians along various points of the border. Though the Chinese deny the existence of large-scale activities, they admit there are invasions in the meanwhile, claiming that the Chinese forces were enabled to drive off the attackers.—{Australian Press Association.)