Changlingtzu ies southeast of Hur hun on the border atween the Maritime Province of Siberia and Manchoukuo, and of course, well outside the Korean territory. Since, However, the Japanese Army charged with the defence of Manchoukuo there is nothing strange {he Chosen Command—interesting itgelt in such border incidents, Tho} report {rom Seoul contains informa. tion with regard to the activities of the Far Eastern Army of the USSR, alleging that the Russians are massing combat planes and bombers for the spreading of poison gas near that have acquired themselves a tite tne Actually Soviet support of Outer Mongolia, antedates the creation of Manchoukuo by the Japanese Army by many years.
During the winter the great rivers the Argun, Amur and Ussuri are frozen for many months, and access to the hundreds of islands whose owner. ship is one, of the points disputed by Manchoukuo, Is a simple matter. 'Also raids across the frozen surfaces offer no dim culty, whereas during the warmer seasons any considerable Ineursion to the neighbouring terrltory. will require boats. Inthe warm season' there is no litre firing at boats who may or may not have erossed the International boundary line or at least the line as claimed by the side which did the firing, Both sides have suggested that Joint, conference was required for the adjustment of boundary incidents, The suggestion of neutral observers has been raised and vetoed, There Is urgent need of agreement on and lear demarcation of the actual line, Both sides accuse the other side of grabbing territory and both sides ace use the other side of provoking mort of the incidents, Unless a halt {called to the surveying and investigating activities which carry the urrds of one side Into the territory presently occupied by the other, it highly probable that these skirmishes will give rise 10 serious conflet.
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