Moscow and Tokyo to Go Inés Negotiations:
"Non-Aggression Berlin, Oct, 25.
The press here is giving much prominence to. sensational reports from Tokyo ax well as from Moscow fon alleged. impending conversations between Japan" and the Soviet Union by which the entire complexion of the political situation in the Par East may be radically changed. Mr, Matsuka, head of the special Japanese delegation Geneva, is at present on his way to Europe vin Siberia. He willy it is said in these reports, initiate very important conversations with the Soviet authorities, when he arrives in "Moscow.
'Among the questions to te discussed will be the conclusion of a Russo-Japanese non-aggression pact proposed several months ago the' Moscow Government, and im portant agreements on the supply Russia. of oil, coal, and. ore The question of fixing a_ new frontier-line between the "Soviet Union and. Manchuria will also taken' up ax well as the problem of the Chinese Eastern Railway with 'a view to its eventual sale to Japa The fisheries convention is to be ¥e-vised and extended.
The Soviet Government is to give an undertaking that it will abstain from fostering the Communist agitation in Japan, teen ese reports which ha received from various sources Moscow and Tokyo are published by the Berlin press so far withen: comment, the leading papers merely adding that even if they do not prove fully correct they must at Toast be regarded as signifeant and as showing one direction in which the Far Eastern situation might develop, especially in ease Japan meets with strong opposition at Geneva when the League of Nations discusses the Lytton Report Trans-Ocean Kuo Min, Tokyo, Oct. 26.
It is understood that the Government has agreed to open preliminary parleys on the proposed Russo-[Japanese non-aggression pact about. the middle of December. MIN.
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