Tokyo, May 15.
tense atmosphere is prevailing tu the Japanese military headquarters at Tsitsihar following the incident on Sunday morning, when a Soviet battery is alleged to have fred on a Manchoukuo vessel near the confluence of the Amur and Sungari Rivers, when it is said that Japanese officer was seriously injured during the attack, in addition toa Manchoukuo seaman being killed and another wounded.
The officer was Captain Sakura}, who was in command of a smi detachment of Japanese troops who were on their way to Tahelho, on the Manchurian bank of the Amur, opposite Blagoveschensk.
"The vessel concerned in the affair was the s. Chi Hsien, a ship of 800 tons flying the Manchoukuo flag, and the attack occurred four miles west of the confluence of the Sungari and the Amur.
Dispatches received here assert that the Japanese troops aboard the vessel did not respond to the fire.
Meanwhile, a strong protest against Dredgt the incident has been fled with the Soviet Consul-General at Harbin, M. Slavutsky, by the local representative of the Foreign Office, with a request that his communication should be forwarded to Moscow for the immediate attention of the Soviet Government—Reuter.
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