Tokyo, Sept. 17.
A permanent joint commission to] handle all Soviet-Manchoukuo border disputes was proposed to-day by Spokesman of the Foreign Office.
Commenting on press reports in leating that Ambassador Ohta had conversed with Moscow officials re~ garding the extension of the provi-Sions of the Portsmouth Treaty prohi ing fortifications along the Ko: roan-Soviet frontier to include Manchuria, the spokesman said:
"We believe a permanent joint commission authorized to. settle. the Various border controversies, instead of handling everything through exist Ing channels, would be a wise procedure and much more beneffeial and fective than the pact which has so often been pro: osed."—United Press.
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