Changchun, July 21. BBITTERNESS in strained relations between the Soviet Union on the one hand, and Japan and Manchoukuo on the other, mounted here today with the receipt of news of another border fracas in which one Red Army trooper was shot and killed by Manchoukuo border guards near Ssutashan, 20 kin. east of Manchou li yesterday in a brief exchange of rifle fire.
A Soviet parte! of five men, dispatches reaching here stated, approached the Manchurian border.
Two Russian troopers, it was alleged, penetrated 300 to 400 metres into Manchurian territory. When challenged by Manchoukuo guards, the Soviet patrol opened fire and in the combat one Soviet trooper, it was reported, was shot and killed while his four companions fled back into Soviet Japanese War Power Over-Estimated London, July 21.
"European powers are greatly overestimating the Japanese war machine, which now lacks its pre-war unity," declared General von Falkenhausen, chief of the former German military advisers in China, in an interview granted to the Singapore correspondent of the "Daily Herald" on his way home to Germany. General von Falkenhausen paid tribute to the "excellence of the Chinese troops," and said that he believed that China would last out for a long time. He declared that he might return to China at a later date.—Reuter. territory.
The Manchoukuo authorities immediately instructed their Foreign Affairs Commissioner in Harbin to protest to the Soviet Consulate-Gen-inst this alleged intrusion.
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