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...AMUR MILITARY ZONE, headquarters at Khabarovsk: 13 divisions (at least six airborne); 200 four-engined bombers based at Nikolaevsk, near the Amur River mouth; 100 navy attack planes based at Sovetskaya Gavan. Oil is refined at Komsomolsk (founded in 1932, present pop. 250,000), which also has large navy yards. Komsomolsk's huge Amurstal mills roll steel for modern submarines, destroyers and cruisers...
Japanese agents have also spotted the fingers of a fast-lengthening Russian rail and highway system, linking these troop dispositions and reaching toward the North Pacific shore. Partly completed: a northern trunk of the Trans-Siberian railway, from Lake Baikal eastward to the lower Amur River region. Under construction: a highway from the mid-Siberian maneuvering and training center of Yakutsk eastward toward Anadyr, near the tip of Siberia, facing Alaska; a railroad from Nikolaevsk to Kamchatka, circling the Sea of Okhotsk and making Japan's northern water flank in effect a Russian lake...
...other Western powers which appeared as open enemies . . . [In the middle of the 19th Century] England and France. . . asked and obtained the opening of some additional places to foreign trade, more privileges for the Christian missionaries . . . During the same period, Russia obtained from China the northern bank of the Amur River and the eastern bank of the Ussuri River ... an area larger than that of France and Germany combined. This area is now held by the Soviet Union. [It] includes the port of Vladivostok...
...sank the Japanese Fleet? I, said the Russian navy. With my Amur River Flotilla I sank the Japanese Fleet...
Writing in Pravda on Russian Navy Day last week, Soviet Admiral I. S. Yumashev gave the following account of the victory: "We faced the fresh, elite Kwantung Army and considerable Japanese naval forces based on Korea and the West Coast of Japan . . . The [Soviet] Pacific Fleet and the Amur Flotilla began a resolute offensive which ended in the complete routing of the enemy . . . We recovered Southern Sakhalin and the Kurile Islands, which had always belonged to Russia,* and the Soviet forces entered Port Arthur. The Japanese beast of prey was forced to his knees; imperialist Japan capitulated...