Tokyo, July 7.
Coptending that "no dispute is ad fine to senate og E d oras the Amur, the an for the apanese Foreign to-day took strong exception ta & reported Soviet Vapanese. troops on one of the islets rotest against the alleged landing of
en Manda; According tọ official despatches rom Moscow, the spokesman said.
Benedict I, Kozlovsky, chief of the ar Eastern division of the Soviet oreign Office, made representations yesterday fo Mr. Haruhiko Nishi. Counsellor of the Japanese Embassy, stating that about one company of Japanese troops had landed on Bolshoi island where they had entrenched themselves.
M. Kozloysky, the Gaimusho official continued, termed this action by japanese soldiers "a violation" of the understanding reached between Mr. Mamoru Shigemitsu, Japanese Ambassador, and M. Maxim Litvinoff, Foreign Commissar, last Friday.
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