Word: manchukuoan
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...Russia before the end of 1942 shortened last week. From Chungking came word that the Japanese were speedily building defenses in Inner Mongolia, had already withdrawn some provincial-government departments behind the Great Wall. Allied Intelligence unearthed Jap plans to conscript native troops, to reinforce the army on the Manchukuoan-Siberian frontier...
Siberia still lacks sufficient railroads, and the Trans-Siberian is dangerously near the Manchukuoan border and Japanese bombers. But long ago the Russians began building a parallel line from Taishet 2,000 miles east...
Poised for such a strike is a Jap army of 1,000,000 on the Manchukuoan frontier. Thousands of men are building new highways and railways over which the mechanized divisions would roll. Between 1934 and 1939 airfields along the Siberian border have been increased from 130 to 250. If Japan could afford the planes to stock these airfields and give her northern army aerial support, the chances of a drive on eastern Siberia would be better...
...gone, she will have either to get scrap from Germany, if Germany can deliver it, or the Japanese steel industry must switch from scrap to pig iron. To do so, the Japs must get the Germans to build them some good blast furnaces; they must also get the Manchukuoan mines into real production, or get ore from Russia...
...Russian railroads could handle such volume, believed it would take at least a ship a day leaving Black Sea or Baltic ports to transport the fodder. >From Dairen, Manchukuo, came a report, later broadcast from Berlin, that the Russians had agreed to transport 1,000,000 tons of Manchukuoan soybeans over the Trans-Siberian Railroad to Germany within the next few months. Soybeans are used to produce margarine, and oil cake used as cattle fodder. Again it was questioned whether the Trans-Siberian, part of the way a one-track affair, could handle such traffic in such a short time...