Tokyo, July 3.
Soviet contentions that the capture of four Japanese troopers by Red Moscow, July 4.
JRAWING attention to the alleged arbitrary actions of a Japanese torpedo-boat which placed eleven signs, in the form of of Kamchatka, in the region of Hariuzovo Strait and "Ptichy" Island, within the twenty-mile sea Soviet Assistant Foreign Commis-'M, Stomonyakov, to-day lodged a strong protest with the T. Oht: border guards in the Manchouli region on June 29 was justified os the area in question became Russian soit under the Tsitsihar Agreement of 1911, will be contested, local diplomatic circles indicated to-day. fand Japan will insist on the release the captured men.
Future Japanese representations, they predicted, would strike at the validity of the pact, which the Tokyo Government will claim, was never fully recognized by one of the original parties to the instrument.
The agreement, in the opinion of [Japanese officials, cannot be included among the treaties which Manchoukuo greed to observe when it announced lis secession from China, but should be made an item on the agenda of future negotiations between -Manchoukuo and the Soviet Union for the readjustment of their relations, because its effectiveness had always been disputed, Peaceful Intentions"
Insofar as Manchoukuo is concermned, officials here say, her western borders with Russia are determined under the terms of the Sino-Russ lweaty of Nerchinsk, concluded in 1689 and the October 21, 1727, trealy. of peace, boundaries and freedom of commerce The Japanese authorities will further contend that the eavalrymen should promptly be released they are reported to have submitted to capture without offering resistance, "thereby indicating their peace-{ul Intentions" according to Gaimusho Meanwhile, Mr. ¥. Kato, president of the Northern Kurlles Fishing Ca. release of four trawlers belonging: o his company which were seized by Soviet warships on June 26 because of an alleged encroachment for Soviet waters.
Of the four vessels, the crew of the Akane Maru alone has been permitted to communicate with Japanese fotticlals, according to reports reach-Ing here, The Foreign Office yesterday instructed Mr. B. Tanaka, Consul at Petropavicsk, to open immediate ons for the liberation of the Friction Breaks Out Anew Dairen, June 30.
Following @ lull of more than six months, friction has again broken out along the Soviet-Manchoukuo frontier, according to Japanese reports.
Four Japanese soldiers are alleged to have been taken prisoner on June 28 by Soviet frontier guards, while a lash occurred on June 28 in. which' tone Japanese soldier was killed and two fatally wounded by what Japanese officials believe to have been, indies "or Soviet spies.
According to an announcement by the headquarters of the Kwangtung Army in Changehun, two squads of Soviet border cavalryman surrounded and captured the four Japanese sold ers at 130 pin. on June 28, in the! vicinity of the frontier, northeast of Manchoull.—Reut New Border Clash Reported Dairen, July 1. 'A clash between Manchoukuo and Soviet soldiers is reported to have. occurred on July 27, east of Mishan, the engagement lasting an hour. The encounter appears to have been of a minor nature, as no one was killed.
'The report, which emanates from Japanese sources, states that a Manchoukuo farmer' and a horse were carried off—Reuter, viet Warned by Japan Tokyo, July 2.
Instructions to lo a protest with the Russian authorities against "the alleged detention of four' Japanese fishing vessels by Soviet destroyers were sent to-day by the Foreign Ofice to Mr. B, Tanaka, Consul in Petropavlovsk—Domei,
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