RUSSIA DEMANDS A SHOWDOWN
REPRESENTATIVES GO TO TOKIO New York, Aug.. 12. The New York Times Shanghai correspondent learns that Soviet representatives have gone to Tokio, definitely demanding that Japan put her cards on the table and conclude the non-aggression pact with the Soviet without reservations or clauses which might be interpreted as a benefit to cither in unusual circumstances. Th? signing of such an agreement wow’ ! immediately divorce Japan from the Axis pact. Although Japan has been rushing extra troops to Manchuria, and she is now estimated to have 350,000 there, three Far Eastern Soviet armies, with headquarters at Vladivostock, Khabarovsk and Chita, are estimated to number at least 500,000. These armies are absolutely independent of European Russia in regards arm?, munitions, uniforms, food and repair bases, and are reported to be supe-.ci to the Japanese forces C T t’.A.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 190, 14 August 1941, Page 5
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