Shanghai, Sept. 4.
Two Japanese light cruisers sailed from Shanghai at 11.30 o'clock yesterday morning for Hankow in keeping with Navy Ministry orders for tightening up the Japanese naval patrol on the Yangtze following the murder of two Japanese and the wounding of two Japanese in Cheng-(won August 24. They were the Ataka and. the Azam, guards and aeroplanes at Tungning on August 28.
M. Kozlovsky, chief of the eastern section of the' Commissariat, em-Phatically repudiated the Japanese allegation. He recalled that he delivered.a protest to Mr. Sakoh on 'August 27 about an incident in which Japanese and Manchoukuo soldiers are alleged to have fired, the day before. on Soviet guards and pasture ing horses in Soviet territory. with fatal, consequences for' a" Russian war The Japanese authorities, said M. Kozlovsky, were persistently fabric cating false charges. giving the impression that the Japanese authorities in Manchoukuo were socking Justify in advance new provocative incidents which they might be contemplating. The Soviet, he declared, would hold Japan responsible for the present frontier situation, which, he said, was endangering the cause of peace.
Kozlovsky proposed that a mixed frontier commission consisting, of Soviet, Japanese and Manchouktio representatives be established immediately. Japan, he pointed out. agreed in February to the formation fof such a body. M. Koalovsky charged the Japanese Government with responsibility for the delay in set-{ing up the commission.
The Russian Ambassador at Tokyo, he asserted. had been instructed 10 protest to the Japanese Gaverninent about, "many other frontier viola-
Outrages" alleged to have been committed by Japanese against Soviet Consulates in Man-stated, while his government further had on record three cases of border violation and of illegal firing into Soviet territory by troops of the new State, Mr. Arita Is understood to have pointed out that inasmuch as he Kwow that Japanese officers and men Manchuria had been strictly warned against crossing the border, he did not believe the Soviet allegation regarding the Might near Paviovo-Fed ova, He, however, agreed to cor duct an investigation.
Rogatding the cases referring to Manchoukuo units, Mr. Arita is reported to have declared he could not Siscuss the matter on the grounds that Manchoukuo was an independent state and Japan could not be the object of protests on questions relating {fo the new Empire—Domel.
Moscow Charges Denied Taihoku, Formosa, Sept. 4 Soviet press reports alleging that the Japanese authorities were mistreating the captain and the crew of the s. Terek, detained following an unauthorized "entry into the Mako naval base, in the Pescadores, were emphatically denied by the Formosan Government-General_ to-day.
According to the Japanese officials. the captain of the vessel Is put up Mrst-class Japanese inn Takao, Formosa. pending completion of his examination by the procure for of the District Court on charges of violating the Jananese Navigntion Law. He is not ill, as alleged by Fass, the official Soviet news are ney, it was emphasized.
The crew Is being kept aboard the ship and, according to a check of its stores carried out yesterday, there was sulelent food for the" entire complement for the next ten days, officials said. The ship's water supply, they added, would pumice the crew for three days and arrangements had already been made for a new supply when this was exhausted.
Cherges that the crew had beer beaten by Japanese police oflleers were strongly" denied. M. Peter Krauze, Soviet Consul-Generat Kobe. who arrived in Talhokt: on August 27 Ie still staying at the Rallway Hotel hero, Consul Satisfied Meanwhile, the. Japanese naval strength in Shanghai will be doubled with the arrival here from the south of the Thirteenth Destroyer Flotilla consisting of the Wakatake, Sanae and Kuretaka. Anchored here now fare the cruiser Izumo, flagship of the Third Fleet, and the gunboats Hast. and Kotaka,
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