Show SOVIET WAR MACH MACHINES TOLD TO PREPARE FOR SEIZURE PLOTS fi c f B By EUGENE LYONS I Copyright 1932 b by bS United Press I MOSCOW V Feb 23 Soviet 23 Soviet military forces numbering more than have been warned by the war office to prepare to defend soviet against seizure plots The warning came in a war office manifesto signed by Commissar of War Klementi and issued at the peak of the nations nation's celebration of the fourteenth anniversary of the red army's formation The manifesto declared ians are arc plotting to seize soviet territory ter in the far cast Czarist Russians Russians Russians Rus Rus- have been actively supporting Japanese occupation of ot Manchuria where Japanese and soviet interests arc involved White guards czarist exiles supported supported sup sup- ported by certain groups of ot Imperialists Imperial arc open openly planning to seize soviet soviet soviet sov sov- iet territory in the far lar east cast shiloy proclaimed ORGANIZING CHARGED East and west they are laying plans for intervention They are preparing preparing preparing pre pre- paring public opinion for an attack on the soviet oviet They arc organizing bands of white guards for the attack attack at at- tack The warning wamin aroused Intense en en- throughout the nation The armed proletariat was eulogized everywhere described the contrast i presented between the bloodshed in m China and the peace speeches of or bourgeois orators at the world disarmament disarmament dis dis- armament conference at Geneva He Hc emphasized that the soviet union desires peace but pointed out the necessity for defending the slogan slogan I gan of Dictator Josef JosefV V. V Stalin We do not want a single Inch or of of foreign soil soU but will not give up a sin single le inch of our own manifesto was regarded regard regard- ed as particularly significant in view of the recent formation of an m independent independent inde lode pendent state in m Manchuria under Japanese influence Russia has considerable interest in Manchuria being joint operator with the Chinese government of the Chinese Chi nese nose Eastern railway Control of Manchuria by a hostile power would give Russia cause to fear for her chief eastern seaport Vladivostok and for portions of Siberia I I Russia could mobilize an army of actives and reserves Its standing army is the largest in the world contrasting w with th for France Italy's Great Britain's Japans Japan's and the Un United United Unit Unit- ted t- t ed States' States Only the military forces of or France with reserves numbering and Italy with reserves top soviet Russia in total strength The white guards former members of the Russian imp imperial impe ial regime are bitter foes of the soviet sovieL Recently they have given support to Japanese military activity in Manchuria When Manchuria declared its independence it was announced that white Russians would be granted citizenship Subsequent movement of soviet so troops on the Siberian frontier was explained as bein being necessary because i I of the danger of attack by whIte guards I |