Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-28
'Friendly Note" Informs Mos
cow Demonstration Causes
Unpleasant Effect on Japa-
neSe and Chinese Soldiers.
go 900 FORCE REPORTED
AT STRATEGIC POSITIONS
Newspapers Publish Reports From
Harbin Stating Russians Have
Sent Arms to Amur Army, Which
Japan Holds Endangers Her
Interest.
By the Associated Pr.ss.

By the Associated Press.
TOXIC, October 20.--Concerned
because Of a possible misinter-
probation" Of Russian military OPP
erations, the Japanese foreign
minister, Baron Shidehara, dis
patched a friendly note of warn
ing" to Moscow today requesting
the diScontinuance Of troop dem
onstrations along the Manchurian-
Siberian border.
The Russian demonstrations,
the note said, we're causing an
unpleasant effect upon japanese
as well as Chinese troops in Man
churia.
The Japanese consul at Tsitsi-
har, western Manchuria, reported
that between 10000 and $4,000
Russian soldiers we're concentrated
west of Manchuli and in the vicin-
ity of Pogranitchnaya. These two
cities are on the borders of Man
churia at each end of the Chi
neSe Eastern Railway, which runs
through Manchuria and provides
q short cut for the Russian
Trans-Siberian Railway between
Chita and Vladivostok.
Send Arms and Ammunition.
Vernacular newspapers here pub
lished reports from Hardin stating that
Russians had sent arms and ammuni-
ton to the Amur army Of Chinese and
Mongolians. which has at various times
repeatedly aimed at established Amur
as an independent state with Tsitsihar
as the capital.
The dispatches said Amur troops en-
dangered Japanese interests on the
Taonan- Anganchi Railway, constructed
on capital lent BY the Japanese
South Manchurian Railway. The loan,
totaling about s6,500,000, to Chinese
interests for the construction OF the
railway, never has been repaid.
1t was announced further that the
South Manchurian Railway was send
ing an engineering force, accompanied
by q sman detachment OF troops ito
serve as . guard" TO repair the Nonni
River bTlukts IcCCnt9 daLhoSC0 W
Amur troops. Repairs to the bridge,
which Is just south OF Tsitsihar, will
require about q fortnight.
The bridge was said to have been
damaged by the Amur troops to hinder
movement Of the troops OF Gen. Chang
Chai-Peng, who has ambitions to es-
tabliSh an independent Chinese govern
ment at TsitSihar.
The sending Of a Japanese detach-
ment to the Nonni Bridge will mark the
farthest point to which Japanese forces
have gone in Manchuria since the res
toration of RusSo-Japanese relations
in 1925.
The reports of Russian troops con-
centration which occaSioned the jap
anese note TO Moscow have been reach
ING Japanese sources for several days.
Vernacular newspapers printed Har-
bin dispatches saying the Russians were
supplying the Annur army with field
guns. rifles and ammunition with view
TO protecting the Chinese Eastern Rail-
way in the vicinity OF Anganchi, near
the Nonni River.
Originally the Taonan-Anganchi Rail-
way almost reached the Chinese East
ern Railway tracks. A few years after
completion OF the former line Chinese
built q bridge over the Chinese Eastern
tracks, continuing the Taonan- Anganchi
line TO TSitSihar, Is miles away.
Russians objected TO the Chinese line
crossing the Chinese Eastern. as the
extension took certain amount of
TsitSihar business from the Chinese
Eastern Railway and gave that city a
direct route southwark through Taonan
Will PROTECT PEOPLE.