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Russia's strength in the Far East. The Far East is a mighty outpost of Soviet power. We must strengthen it by all possible means. This was the Russian view in 1931.

In this is a clue to the Russian strength, which today is concentrated in Soviet Asia. That great area between the Orals and the Pacific, which is larger than European Russia and the United States combined.

A quarter of a century ago, This night, Burya was thought up and that snow-covered ice-bound wilderness. Today it has been transformed, where the icy winds whistled and the wolves howled in the crisp air. Today, there are roaring steel mills, rumbling mines, humming factories, air bases, naval bases, shipyards, vigorous new cities.

Habarabsk, guagavastiansk, kamsemalsk. These are the cities of Soviet Asia. Makalayabsk, petropovlabsk, Soviet skaya. The names have become familiar in newspapers. Chetter, Nerchinsk, Yarkutsk, familiar in print, but only by putting them together. Each is a piece in a jigsaw puzzle, is the picture of Soviet strength in the Far East reveal.

North of the Armoure River, flight subrussian planes maneuver overhead. South of the Armoure River, Japanese watch these flights and try to estimate Soviet Asia's probable total strength. By proportion to those bombers, what would be the strength of the Soviet ground forces here in the Far East?