Most foreign correspondents saw that the object of all this propaganda was to try to portray manchuria as the central battleground - the only important battleground - of the china civil war in order that military reverses could be blamed on the russians 大多数外国记者已经看出，这一整套宣传的目的是要把满洲描绘为中国内战的中心战场和唯一重要的战场，以便把军事上的失利归咎于俄国人。
