Tokyo, July 3.
The Japanese Army will continue to maintain a watchful attitude on developments on the Amur even. after the withdrawal of Soviet troops, a spokesman of ihe-War Office told the press to-day.
News of the settlement was received with satisfaction by Government, business and financial circles. 1 Officials, however, pointed out that the accord reached in Moscow merely restores the status quo ante providing maintenance of nine channel markers and one lighthouse by Manchoukuo and settlement of Manchoukuo subjects for farming and placer mining. Further negotiations must determine the ownership of the islands over which Soviet Russia claims sovereignty by virtue of old treaty rights, Tokyo and Changchun. authorities point to the presence of Manchoukuo subjects on the island and to the maintenance by Manchoukuo of the channel markers and th lighthouse under the terms of a technical agreement reached between the Soviet Union and Manchoukuo at Heiho last year, as proof of Manchoukuo's right to the islets.
According to the captain of the. s. Hsingan, a Manchoukuo maintenance ship, who first discovered occupation of Bolshoi and Sennuha Islands by Soviet troops on June 19, the Red forces-did mot "molest the vessel but he thought it@discreet, says the Taiheiho correspondent of the "Tokyo Nichi4Nichi," to proceed to Heiho, Wu Kuo-tung and Tien Fu, Manchoukuoan ' keepers of Channel Markers 176 and 169 Sennuha told the correspondent that early on June 19 they were ordered by Soviet troops to leave the islet and were prevented from taking the lighting apparatus on the markers with them.—Domei.
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