"Mild"; Tension on Mongolian: Border Tokyo, June 3.
HAT the Soviet Union was not planning any drastic moves in the Far East was the impression gained from the andre: of M.V.M. Molotov, Soviet Foreign Affairs Commissar, the Are! managed "Japan Advertise declared in an editorial today.
M. Molotov delivered a "mild" speech, in the opinion of the daily. 3 All metropolitan journals attached importance to the Foreign Affairs Commissar's references to Outer Mongolia. The "Asahi": chain of papers sounded a note of warning against further Soviet "transgressions."
The "Advertiser" viewed the' situation in a different light. Referring te M. Molotov's assertion that* the Soviet Union would continue to help China as a "victint of aggression, his warning that it would tolerate any provocation on the part of Japanese and Manchoukuo troops," on the Soviet or Outer Mongolian borders, the journal said his language was "relatively mild."
"It was a far cry from that used in the days when similar speeches in Moscow were apt to resound with references to keeping imperialistic pig snouts' out of collectivized soil," the daily declared.
One gains the impression that the Soviets are not contemplating any very spectacular moves in this part of the world in the immediate future."
Domei. lion border, authorities at the local Hospital. revealed today.
Groups of Soviet and Outer Mongolian wounded began arriving from the western Manchoukuo frontier area yesterday. Together with them were also several prisoners who had surrendered to the Japanese and Manchoukuo troops during the recent fighting.—Domei.
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