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...Sixty Siberian dog teams mushed to the rescue of whom...
...when a war flames up almost overnight somewhere along the Siberian-Mongolian border, setting afire some 750,000 sq. mi. of territory, the man of the minute, from the Russian viewpoint, will be handsome Soviet Army, Navy & Air "Commissar Klimentiy ("Klim") Voroshilov. As Commissar of the Red Navy, red-faced "Klim'' Voroshilov commands a ludicrous force of four battleships, six cruisers, eight modern submarines and some 50 other small boats, mostly anti quated. So superior is Japan on the sea that, should the Great Powers remain neutral, she could not only take Vladivostok and Russia's Siberian...
Same day, however, Japanese troops entered Hulin, close to the Siberian border. Loudly General Hayashi's War Office insisted that they were only "chasing bandits...
Twentieth Century Japan fights first and declares war, if at all, afterwards. That is why Russia is in everlasting dread of a flank attack across the Siberian border, an attack which may fall anywhere, anytime. Russia's prime defense is its ability to move up & down the Trans-Siberian. And that rickety road is at present in notoriously bad condition for a major military action.* It can handle only a few thousand troops a day, provision only a small army on active service. But Russia is double-tracking at breakneck speed and, while it does, 200,000 Red troops...
...Moscow "Klim" as Army Commissar knows well enough that the Red Army, second largest (562,000) in the world though it be, is untried, inexperienced and if forced to fight Japan at the end of the Trans-Siberian 5,600 miles from Moscow will be at an appalling disadvantage. But as Commissar for Air he is believed to feel that the Red Air Force (2,000 planes) is Russia's joker, her super-trump card against Japan...