SINISTER MOVEMENT.
MOBILISING IN MANCHURIA.
RUSSIANS AND CHINESE
TOKIO, April 11
Japanese correspondents at Harbin, Central Manchuria, report that points on the Siberian border are blocked with Northern Chinese and Russian troops. They are preparing for eventual histilities. The Russian forces total four divisions. These include a division and *a-half of Chinese Communists. Soviet officials and other Russian residents of Harbin arc preparing to leave that town. The Russians are exultant and predict an early war. The Japanese Chamber of Commerce at Mukden, the capital of Manchuria, have asked for more protection This the Japanese Foreign Office states is not necessary.
LONDON, April 11
In the House of Commons the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Sir Austen Chamberlain, said lie had no information as to Russian troops mobilising on (he Manchurian border.
The Scots Guards, four companies of the Northamptonshire Regiment and Green Howard Regiments, all in a most cheerful spirit, entrained at various depots this morning for Southampton. From there they sailed in the afternoon for China by the steamers Derbyshire and City of Marseilles.
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Waikato Times, Volume 102, Issue 17076, 13 April 1927, Page 7
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