Pro ahead Tokyo, Sept. 21.
Negotiations and detailed. arrange= ments between the Soviet and Japan~ ese authorities for the exchange of prisoners of war and corpses have made smooth progress, according to a Japanese field dispatch received here today from Nero.
The Japanese delegation. headed by Polapor, it says, met, again near the Khalka River al o'clock yesterday afternoon.
General Potapoy is said then to have proposed that the Japanese should enter Outer Mongolian' terri-allowed to enter Manchoukuo terri tory to search for Soviet bodies.
The offer was accepted, the dispatch adds, and consequently it was arranged that a joint. search for corpses be conducted by the Japanese Soviets between September 23
The exchange of prisoners, it ts said, will be effected near the Khatka River on September 27, when Japan ese and Ouler Mongolian prisoners will be taken to a given point by motor-truck.
Both Major-General Fujimoto and General Potapov are said to have showed each other maps, mentioning ions of the first lines of the Japanese and Soviet forces. An change of maps, however. it is added, has been postponed until Thursday, awaiting "confirmation fom their respective supreme commanclers."—Reuter.
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