Moscow, Aug. 31.
Gtated to have been held on most cordial terms, a two-hour. conference between M. Mamoru Shigemitsu, Japanese Ambassador, and M. Maxim Litvinoff, Soviet Foreign Commissar, took' place here this afternoon, Despite the cordiality of the meeting, the statesmen have not yet reached a full agreement on the documents that are to form the: basis in coming discussions on the' delimitation of the Soviet-Manchou-kuan frontier in the Lake Khussan district of Changkaofeng, authoritative quarters declare, a map delineating the. 1 however, claimed that she had no knowledge of this treaty, which had been kept secret, and asserts Chang-kaifeng belongs to Manchoukuo. Discussions have been continued the past three weeks with a view to deciding whether the 1886 treaty will be admitted as the basis for further negotiations, since Moscow makes the recognition of that agreement a prerequisite to any border-delimitation parleys. f Meanwhile, in view of numerous foreign reports asserting that Marshal Vassili Bluecher, Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet Far Eastern Army, has been dismissed, attempts were made here to confirm his fall from grace, So far no' information bolstering such despatches has been available.
Marshal Bluecher is the same man who in China marched with the Nationalist Armies of the South, then being known as General Galen.—Havas.
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