Changchun, July 3.
Sovit troops holding Sennuha and Bolshoi Islands since June 22 this afternoon began withdrawing to the Russian shore of the it River, the Kwantung Army headquarters here were advised by radio to-night.
Simultaneously "more than twenty" Soviet gunboats and armed cutters, concentrated near the islands began leaving the disputed river zone, the. despatches added.
Manchoukuo Bureau of. Navigation officials will be stationed on the islands as soon as they are evacuated, the Government announced here tonight, Mr. Shih Li-pen, Manchoukuo Foreign Affairs Commissioner in Harbi was instructed to notify the Soviet authorities there of this decision,—Domei
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