The USSR. has no territorial designs in Outer Mongolia, Soviet delegates to the Institute of Pacific Relations conference said. to-day. Its only invasion of Outer Mongolia, they said, was to oust an unofeial army with which the Mongolians were tne able to cope.
To back up their argument the delegates pointed to the treaty between. the Soviet Union and Outer Mongolia insuring Mongolian stabilly. "This treaty, known as a mutual ald pact, and concluded on March 12, provides for mutual assistance on the art of each country in case of the menace of a third; but it also prom vides that if troops are sent to. the aid of one of the parties they shall be withdrawn as soon as the emergency concluded.
The USSR. also recognizes China's sovereignty over Manchuria, the Soviet delegates. concluded.
In reply to the statements of the legates from the USSR. on their policies in regard to Outer Mongolia, the American delegates said that the USSR, was tending to Sovietize Outer ifongotia through gradual -industrial penetration and particularly through the instrument of oilways.
Members of the Chinese delegation reiterated the point that all treaties since 1911 had. recognized China's sovereignty over Outer Mongolia, Other delegates generally agreed that the Japanese were trying to improve mongolian. sheep in order that they might yield wool which will prove useful to Japan, "Not Isolationist"
Japan does not intend to become an isolationist nation, declared. Mr. Yosuke Tsurumi, a member of the Japanese Diet, in an address to the delegates of the Institute of Pacife Relations, now holding their annual conference here In a few years, Mr. Tsurumi declared, Japan will' be able to resume
"We are at presently merely passing hor role in the family of nations through the throes" of internal re-
Sir Kenneth Wigram, a member of {he British delegation tothe Institut, told the conference delegates to-day that "the world has made a bogey out of Japanese trade expansion." He expressed the opinion thatthe me crease of Japanese exports to all parts of the world did not constitute the menace to other nations which press accounts and. utterances of "public functionaries in many paris of the: world would indicate, Mr. Newton D. Baker, former United States Secretary of War, concurred in this opinion. "The expansion of Japanese foreign trade," he ly magni fact and' in appearance:
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