Tokyo, July 12.
Preparatory conversations for the formation of tripartite commissions for the demarcation of the Soviet Manchoukuo border, "and for the settlement of frontier disputes, will begin here early next. week," The negotiations will be in charge of Mr, Shigenori Togo, director of the Bureau Asiatic and European Affaits of the Japanese Foreign Office, and Mr. Nicholas Rayvid, councillor of the Soviet Embassy, Japanese preparations for the negotiations virtually were com= pleted with the return from Manchoukuo of Major Selzo Arisue, a member of the Techincal Affairs Headquarters of the War Ofice, who sounded the attitude of the Manchoukuo Administration and" the Kwantung Army towards the ques:
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