Manchoukuo to Lodge Strong Protest with US.S.R.
Tokyo, July 18.
'The alleged practice' of Soviet} frontier guards of firing live ammunltion across the Manchoukuo border} during firing practice will form the Jsubject of a Manchoukuo protest. to Moscow, reports received here to-day {from Changehun said.
Some 20 shots were fired into the Manchurian territory on the evening jot July 8, barely missing a Japanese /uorder patrol stationed in the vicinity of Nanning.
The following night, according to the same report, Soviet troops enraged a shorn battle near the Russian fortiteations at Sunchlation also fired across the border line, endangering the lives of Manchoukuo eitizens—
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