Tokyo, July 2.
Reflecting the unusual importance attached to the present tension on the Amur River by high Japanese government circles, Marshal Prince Kotohito Kanin, chief of the Army General Staff this afternoon submitted a report on the situation to Emperor Hirohito, Gen. Gen Sugiyama, Minister of War, was subsequently received in audience. Earlier Gen., Sugiyama supplied members of the Cabinet with detailed information of new developments on the frontier., Another possible incident was seen to-day in a message to the Tokyo "Nichi-Nichi," from its Harbin correspondent, who reported that anxiety was being felt forthe safety of the s. Hsingkai which left Hulin, on the Ussuri River, for the Amur on June 30. The same evening the Manchoukuo ship reached Fuyuan, near the junction of the two rivers, but thereafter no response was received from the steamer to radio queries. Another Manchoukuo ship yesterday got through the main channel above Chikeh despite interference from two Soviet gunboats, the report added.
The correspondent further reported that a part of the Soviet force on Bolshoi and' 'Sennuha began to evacuate the two islands yesterday morning, in the direction of Constantinovsky and Novopetrovsky villages, Concentration of large bodies of Soviet troops' is continuing in the two Soviet villages, the message added.
The report of the evacuation of the islands could not be confirmed
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