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SRE Se RE 2 RET Cog ELI aE § SRE New York, April 32—Specis radio dispatch direct to The At Janta Woekly—Two armics of 350,000 men, decked by the tanks, planes, artillery and ar mored care of modern combat. are facing each other along the Biberian border as the Russo Japanese ‘clah threatens tc flare into open war fee economic control of all Asia. ‘The arrival of spring in M. churla, freeing the ‘reads transportation of froogs and supplies bas removed the one barrier, observers balieve, which has kept Russia and Japan tech- nically et peace since the Miks. do's soldiers swept through Manchuria last fall Added to the menace of a strained diplomatic situation is China's own fruttiens fight against the ‘tnvasion of fs rich- est province by the Japanese army. Russia, Japan believes. has been secretly aiding the Chinese troope with supplies and riffes. Behind the veil of censorship which all three governments Bh jar imposed Is 2 complicated series of military and nava' maneuvers which, similar to § | those which preceded the war in |1914, are almost certain to end olf open battle, Lsniahiaial here Lear. egy ene KIDNAPING RING | DEFIES U. S. pie Story 00 Page 3