Tokyo, Sept. 2.
Conversations between M. Maxim Litvinoff, Soviet Foreign Commissar, end Mr. Mamoru Shigemitsu, Japanese Ambassador in Moscow, for the creation of a border demarcation commission to determine the frontier between Manchoukuo and the Soviet Union, were making progress, a Foreign Office spokesman said today.
Discussed at these meetings between the Japanese envoy and the Soviet official, the spokesman said, were the questions concerning the organization of a commission as well as the data to be submitted to the body.
Two Soviet delegates, one Manchoukuoan and one Japanese would form the commission, the spokesman stated—Domei.
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