Manchuria:
The Russian invasion continues. The Tass news agency in Russia reports
that more than 3,000 Chinese/Manchurian soldiers have been captured. Refugees fleeing the fighting to Hailar say
1,000 Chinese/Manchurian troops and civilians taking cover from Russian bombing
in a coal mine, were killed.
Elsewhere:
Vienna: The socialist newspaper Arbeiter Zeitung publishes copies of plans by the nationalist Heimwehr
paramilitary to attack and capture Innsbruck, capitol of the Austrian province
of Tyrol. The plans called for using
poison gas, mortars and machine guns.
Warsaw: Police raid 42 apartments and find enormous
quantities of communist literature and money.
Fifty communists are arrested on suspicion of intent to destabilize the
government.
Cassel, Germany: Nationalist political leader Alfred
Hugenberg, in a speech, says his proposal to reject the Young Plan is the only
way to stop the spread of communism across the world. He says his aims in opposing the Young Plan
are to free Germany from bondage to foreign nations, and that this can be
achieved without bloodshed if only all Germans will stand together.
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