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Show WAR PLANES FROM RUSSIA BOMBjOREA Japan Faces War on Two Fronts as Soviet Begins Bombing By UNTIED PRESS Japan facea war on two fronts today, fighting China in the south and Russia in the north. On the Yangtse river front in China, the Japanese threw 30,000 fresh troops into the battle line in an effort to turn back the Chinese. Japan apparently apparent-ly sought an opportunity to send a formidable force against the Russians in the Vladivostok region in the north, in the disputed border region of Siberia, Manchukuo and Korea. Dispatches to Tokyo said Soviet war planes , crossed the Korean border in formation, dropping bombs over Kojo. Japan Harrassed Japan, engrossed with her war in China, appeared to be in no mood for a real war with Russia. Nevertheless, Japanese pride demanded de-manded military action against alleged Russian violations of the frontier. The Russians, on the other hand, took advantage of Japan's weakness on that particular front the Japanese military might being be-ing concenerated in China and refused re-fused to yield an inch. The Soviet Union, which has a heavy military establishment in the region, showed show-ed no inclination to negotiate. The Japanese were having enough trouble in China, according to Chinese reports. The Japanese drive along the Yangtse river towards to-wards Hankow was temporarily halted by a Chinese counter-attack which indicated that the Chinese resistance would delay the capture of Hankow perhaps for months. Hankow Given Up-- The ultimate capture of Hankow, however, seemed to be taken for granted by foreigners and the philosophic Chinese. The United States ambassador, Nelson T. Johnson, moved his headquarters up the river to Chungking, which has been designated as a substitute substi-tute provisional capital in the event of the fall of Hankow. . Diplomats marked time in Europe's Eu-rope's potential trouble spot, Czechoslovakia. Cze-choslovakia. Viscount Runciman of Great Britain left London for Prague as an "unofficial" mediator medi-ator on the German minority problem prob-lem in Czechoslovakia. |