Dec 29, 2017
"Diligently training her soldiers for the wintry conditions they must face should war break out in her remote Siberian territories -a menace that she feels is growing from the Japanese-controlled state of Manchoukue - Russia equips them with skiis for speedy travel over snow-buried road and plain.
Here a fast tank, one of the fastest in the highly-mechanised Red Army, is utilised to tow a squad of the ski-equipped riflemen during manoeuvres "somewhere in the Far East." Men and munitions are being concentrated along the Siberian-Manchoukuon border, according to Moscow reports, as relations with Japan grow more strained.
- from the Kingston Whig-Standard. December 28, 1937. Page 2.