Frontier Clashes Not Due to Red Guards Moscow, Nov. 5.
The Soviet Ambassador in Tokyo to-day presented a Note to Mr. XK. Hirota, "Japanese Foreign - Minister, rejecting, as "completely unfounded, the Japanese contention that the frontier clashes of October 6 and 12 were due to the illegal activities of Soviet frontier guards.
The Note declares that the clashes were precipitated by the "illegal Penetration of mixed Japanese and Manchoukuo armed bands into Soviet territory," where they attacked Soviet patrols.
Both the Japanese and Soviet ver= sions of the clashes differ substan-
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