Changchun, July 15.
Taking a serious view of the alleged invasion by Soviet soldiers of Manchoukuo territory near Hunchun on July 12, the Manchoukuo Government has Jodged a strong protest with Soviet authorities, it was disclosed today.
Mr. Nobusadd Shimomura, a member of the Foreign Commissioner's Office in North Manchuria, was instructed to file a protest with M. Stepan Kuznetsoff, acting Soviet Consul-General in Harbin.
It was alleged that six or seven Soviet soldiers crossed the Manchoukuo border to Changkaofeng, about 25 miles inside the invisible line, and started "constructing positions." About 30 more Soviet soldiers were said to have joined them later.
On the southern slope of Changti eleven tents were pitched, the statement alleged.
The protest charges that the actions of the soldiers are "illegal" and demands that the Soviet authorities withdraw them from Manchoukuo territory and take necessary steps to prevent a repetition of a similar occurrence.
Changkaofeng is a strategic place on the border and commands a full view of northern Korea and military bases near Possiet in Soviet territory. the statement said.
The Soviet authorities "apparently resorted to this illegal action in the ope of controlling this strategic point so as to keep secret the military rations now going on in Soviet the statement alleged.
"In view of the fact that this illegal action was carried out by Soviet soldiers after "border fence line was strengthened, there can be no doubt that it was deliberately done by the Soviet authorities," the statement said.—Domei.
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