The Soviet side remark that they learned only through the Manchoukuo News Service (Kokutsu) that the Kwantung Army was not in accord with "their proposal, "nevertheless [Soviet authorities insist that the frontier does not require demarcat-Ing. In particular they state. that long. standing Sino-Russian agreements, accompanied by detailed maps, of which duplicate copies had been only authenticated, had settled all questions of the ownership of every-tone of the numerous islands which dot the border rivers, In Soviet circles at Harbin the In Soviet circles detailed reference Jwere made to. a long. series of treaties, agreements, protocols and Jaide-memoires, with regard to boundary, and it was cynically added that Russia has had vast experience with border affairs, with many nations, {for many years whereas Japan, until Fecenty, was entirely' bounded Apparently Russia has not always been so confident of the adequacy of the border markings. The Manchou-Ikuo Foreign Ofice point out that the treaty of 1015, whereby the Republic Jot China and the Russian Empire releognized the autonomy of Outer Mongolia under the suzerainty of JChina, specifically provided that, the border of Outer Mongolia should be Jdemareated within two years, Two Jyears later there was little time in Russia for such activities, and no effort has been mode to rectify that
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