Tokyo, Sept. 12.
Japanese official circles today exe pected an early, successful conclusion. of the conversations between Mr. Mamoru Shigemitsu, Japanese Ambassador in Moscow, and Mi. Alexander Potemkin, Assistant Soviet. Foreign Commissar, for the organization of a joint border commission, The negotiations are progress smoothly, it was authorita understood here today.
The joint border commission, coi posed of two Soviet, one Jap and one Manchouktoan delegates, be entrusted with the task of d cating the—eighty-kilometre-] border between Totsupai, or 1 starting point of the border on the lower reaches of the Tumen River, Changkufeng hill and other pee and No. 1 border post, including.
territories.
A spokesman of the reign Office today expressed the po that co-Operation between the Soviet Union and Japan would make the demarcation of the border line in the disputed area a success. This, the spokesman said, would have a beneficial effect upon a future settlement of other pending questions between the two nations—Domei, 1
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