Khabarovsk reports' that: two Japanese soldiers, Nakiyama Matsudaira "and Saito "Saburo, who crossed the Soviet border, were detained on Soviet territory south of Grodekovo and gave evidence that were con-they nes Infantry. Division, and. that due to humiliating treatment by their affeers and poor material conditions, both had agreed to desert. rifles, backed by machine-gun fre from' their compatriot force frontier. The Soviet fron tier guards returned "the fire and forced the Manchoukuo force to retreat back into Manchurian territory. The Soviet frontier guards found and collected Japanese used rifle cartridge cases at the place of the incident—"Tass, Changchun, May 6, Denying. Moscow's charge that Japanese and Manchoukuo troops recently crossed the Soviet border, the Kwantung Army to-day asserted that Russian border patrols invaded Manchoukuo thrice in the last, week of April and thrice this month. The Army's communique said the invading units ranged in strength between and more than 100 men.—Domiel, Harbin, May 9.
Japanese troops engaged in series. of punitive operations against ye "bandit" "in north' Manchuria, today repulsed 100 eremry fighters, killing thirty, it wes announced here, United Press.
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