Word: baikal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...documents originating in Japanese military circles containing plans of campaign against the Soviet Union. Japanese military circles, and not only military circles, are considering the question of an attack upon the Soviet Union and the seizure of the provinces of Primarsk [of which Vladivostok is chief city] and Trans-Baikal [west of Manchuria...
Russia did not take news of General Semenov's plans lightly. In Tokyo. Soviet Ambassador Alexander Trojanovsky was pressing a proposal for a Russo-Japanese non-aggression treaty, with little success. At Lake Baikal, 1,000 miles northwest of Manchuria. Russia was reported to be building "strong defensive works...