Riga, Latvia:
A former staff officer in the Soviet Red Army discloses to the press
that Russia has plans for extensive and escalating military intervention in
Manchuria to retrieve control of the Chinese Eastern Railway. According to the officer, Russia's plan is to slowly and steadily intensify operations, thereby making it difficult for outsiders to know exactly when the localized guerilla actions have in fact escalated into broader military operations. This will be accompanied, he says, by sabotage of the Chinese Eastern Railway inside Manchuria, and a propaganda campaign urging workers at the coal pits in Dalainor to strike. This campaign will also attempt to foster riots in North Korea (for what reason, he does not say). Then, a full scale military offensive will begin on December 1, to be joined by forces of the Mongolian People's Army, if Russia’s demands for control of the railway are not met.
Back east, meanwhile, Kliment Voroshilov, Commissar of War, has been drumming up public support for the military action. At a recent meeting in Leningrad, he described the situation in the east as "very serious," and mentions general mobilization of armed forces as a possibility.
In the Manchurian conflict, meanwhile, soviet warplanes appear over Fuchin and bomb a Chinese gunboat.
"Should the Reichsbanner, under the motto 'No More War,' wage civil war in Austria, we and the other national associations will not stand by with grounded arms."
The German press, however, covering the speech, says the Reichsbanner has made no such threats, and expresses concern that the Stahlhelm might be looking to invent a crisis as a pretext for making trouble in Austria.
Back east, meanwhile, Kliment Voroshilov, Commissar of War, has been drumming up public support for the military action. At a recent meeting in Leningrad, he described the situation in the east as "very serious," and mentions general mobilization of armed forces as a possibility.
In the Manchurian conflict, meanwhile, soviet warplanes appear over Fuchin and bomb a Chinese gunboat.
Luneberg, Germany:
Lieut. Col Theodor Duesterberg, a leader of the nationalist Stahlhelm paramilitary, gives a speech in which he threatens Stahlhelm intervention in Austria in the event of strife there. Duesterberg says he expects trouble in Austria soon between that country's nationalist paramilitary, the Heimwehr, and its socialist paramilitary counterpart, the Schutzbund. But Duesterberg further claims that Germany's socialist organization, the Reichsbanner, has threatened to go to the aid of the Schutzbund."Should the Reichsbanner, under the motto 'No More War,' wage civil war in Austria, we and the other national associations will not stand by with grounded arms."
The German press, however, covering the speech, says the Reichsbanner has made no such threats, and expresses concern that the Stahlhelm might be looking to invent a crisis as a pretext for making trouble in Austria.
Elsewhere:
New York: The stock market falls again, down 2.8% on weekend trading. Volume is the second-highest for a Saturday in NYSE history. At 324, Wall Street is at its lowest ebb of the month.
China: Chiang Kai-shek’s nationalist government reportedly has six divisions
converging for battle against the communist rebels that have taken Honan.
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