Both Bolshoi and Se; nuba Islands; also known respectively as Chinam and Kanohaz, are located midstream in the Amur River. Manchoukuo authorities contend that both lie south of the international waterway demarcating the Soviet-Manchoukuo frontier. The Soviets recognized this borden at the Blagoveschensk waterways conference which arrived at a technical agreement whereby the Soviets maintain the lighthouses north of the international waterway and Manchoukuo looks after those south of the channel.
The lighthouse keeper on Sennuha Island was driven away by Soviet troopers in the morning of June 19 while another group of about fifty Soviet soldiers forced Manchurian placer miners om Bolshoi Island to withdraw, according to official reports.
About forty -Soviet border guards were subsequently transported tu Sennuha from Pojarkovo. Soviet town on the northern banks of the river. while another detachment of about twenty men took over Bolshoi on June 22,. these reports added.—Domei.
Southampton, June 29.
Sir Alan Cobham was slightly injured to-day when his plane crashed at North Stoneham while he was departing for a government luncheon on the anniversary of the inauguration of Empire air mail service.—United Press.
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