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Foreigner's Vivid Story Of Soviet Preparedness

MARITIME PROVINCE IN GRIP OF SPY MANIA

(Special To "China Mail")

With new aeroplane and submarine bases being constructed with feverish rapidity, the Soviet Maritime Provinces are virtually on a war footing.

This revelation was made to the "China Mail" this morning by a foreigner who has just conclud-

KAWAGE TO LEAVE

ON FRIDAY

Shanghai, To-day.

It is learned that Mr. Kawagoe, who is now in Nanking engaged in discussions with the Japanese. military commanders, is returning to Shanghai to-morrow and will leave for Tokyo on Friday. -Our Own Correspondent.

MORE SOVIET

JAPANESE RESTRICTIONS IN TSINGTAO

Tsingtao, To-day.

The Japanese authorities have issued an edict requiring that all non-Japanese nationals, including Chinese, must secure a permit from the Japanese Consul General be-

Tsingtao.

el an extensive tour of Soviet territory in the BOMBERS ARRIVE fore entering Tsing th

Far East.

Reports, especially in the Japanese press, of Rus- sian preparations in the Far East, he stated, are not exaggerated, rather do they fall short of the truth.

At

Vladivostok alone, over, under no delusions as to the pur- 100 submarines are already in pose of the vast increase in forti-

ommission, while each

week fications and troops in the Far East.

FRIENDLY TO BRITTONS more under-water craft arrive by

The foreigner described the rail in sections and are assem-

Russian regular soldier as. being bled for immediate service.

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new

The whole stretch of coastline extremely friendly towards Britain, is being fortified,

this apparently being a significant aeroplane and submarine bases are part of their political training. being constructed in isolated re- gions..

NEW MILITARY TOWN-- Describing one such base, the foreigner stated that an entirely new. military town was being built for officers and

men: and their families

In this particular port, he stated, about 500 planes were stationed, as well as about twenty submarines and many surface craft ranging from destroyers to fast coastal mo- torboats.

Both the air force and the navy he stated, are kept on what amounts practically to a war footing.

Not a

a day passes but sub- marines and small craft are at sea on manoeuvres, while the roar of aeroplane engines la almost continuous.

SPY MANJA

The country, he said, is in the grip of a spy mania similar to that which existed in some parts of England during the Great War.

"They are very suspicious of foreigners as a rule," he stated, "but an Englishman is regarded as an ally."

The foreigner described how all foreign vessels arriving in Russian Far Eastern ports are thoroughly searched by naval and "military men and the wireless ap

paratus sealed up.

The most extraordinary precau-

tions are taken with regard to the crews of foreign ships, he says.

SAGHALIEN TENSION

Sailors are only allowed on the wharf to stretch their legs and no straying on shore fa permitted: This restriction applies only in naval bases.

The foreigner found a correspon- ding state of tension on Saghalien Island, northern portion of which is Russian and the southern stretch Japanese.

not

JAPANESE PRECAUTIONS- In Japanese ports, he says, only in Saghalien but in Japan pro- |per, complete “black outs” are held

several times a week.

Executions are common of civili- ans accused of being in the pay of In one port, where his ship stay- Japan.

ed for 48 hours, no less than four Discipline in the Red Army, navy complete black-outs were experien- and air force, the foreigner says, ced, the population having to get is harder than that in the former out of bed, don gas-masks and con- Czarist forces, and the men are centrate at given points.

Shanghai, To-day- According to reports from

Hankow, a fresh batch of latest type bombers arrived at Hankow during the week-end from Soviet Russia.

The pilots are to stay in charge of the machines, which be- have been assigned, it is lieved, to the Lunghai front. Our Own Correspondent.

It is understood that the Bri- tish and · American consuls are making representations.

Pretext for the order is that it is necessary to check looting and profiteering.

Over 600 Japanese, including many women, have returned to their Tsingtao homes since Satur day. Our Own Correspondent.

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