Nanking, Aug. 13.
Reports of Soviet troops across the bord Suifenho (Pogranichnaya) been received from Harbin. The Soviet troops started firing on the morning of the 11th instant upon the Chinese troops across the border, resulting, after two hours of machinegun fre, in the killing of two Kirin soldiers and the wounding of a score of others.
In obedience to previous instruetions, the Chinese troops did not return the fire until it had become certain that the Soviet military authorities wore aiming to destroy the Chinese Defence Force.
In a speech delivered at the State Council Building yesterday, Mr. Koo Ying-fen, Chief Political Official, referring to reports of the ing of two Chinese soldiers by the Soviet troops at Suifenho, said that, while Soviet Russia parently determined to. declare war: upon China, the National: Government would' adhere to its. policy of peace, though of course making appropriate and adequate preparations for self-defence.
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