Moscow, Jan. 24.
publishing the speech' made. by Mr. Hirota, Japanese Foreign Mine
newspapers make' comment thereon, Star, in the Dist on Tuesday the "Pravda" notes that Mr. Hirota's statement about favourable progress megotations on the Chinese Sast= fern "oilway corresponds with facts {tnd that" negotiations evidently are successful completion." The Journal, welcomes. the "intention "of the peaceful development of Soviet-Japanese relations by -doubling efforts for the solution of other newspaper further expresses surprise and regret that Mr. Hirota deemed it appropriate to include in his speech the slogan of those who fare opposed to peaceful relations with the USSR, namely, that the USSR. should weaken the defences of her frontiers in the Far Bast, Tt points out the absurdity and falseness statements made in certain circles in Japan, that the measures of the Soviet Government are intended not for the defence of the Soviet trontie: in the Far East against attack for which open appeals. are made in Japan, but for a Soviet attack on Japan, "It statesmen working for the Improvement of Soviet-Japanese relations make references to such statements, they only facilitate the activi-les of those who dream of conquests and aggressions."
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