opping Centre Tokyo, July 6.
If Moscow's allegation regarding the presence of Japanese troops on BolsHpi Island are true, the soldiers must have been landed' to observe the progress of the evacuation of Soviet border guards, a spokesman of the Army sáid to-day. The Soviet protest is moreover groundless as Bolshoi belongs to Manchóukuo, the spokesman asserted. Army headquarters here, he said, have received no official information of the landing of Japanese troops on the Amur islet,—Domei.
Tokyo, July 6.
An extraordinary international scene appeared in the Ginza shopping centre of Tokyo during Sunday and Monday.
The crew of the Lamotte Piquet, the flagship of the French Asiatic fleet which is now visiting, Japan, landed and mingled with the Japanese customers of the cafes and restaurants along the thoroughfares and played accordions and banjoes and sang popular Japanese songs which they had picked up.—Reuter.
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