Harbin, May 23.
Mounting tension was reported along Manchoukuo's north-eastern border today following the alleged killing of a Japanese border guard on May 19 near the junction of the Amur apd Ussuri rivers by a Soviet frontier patrol.
Trouble first arose in this area on May 16 when a tender of the s. Joshu Maru, a survey vessel of the North Manchuria Shipping Bureau, was said io have been seized by Soviet authorities in the Fuyuan waterway, the reports said.
Following this action, the Soviet authorities were said to have dispatched patrol boats to crüise near the junction as a demonstration, the dispatches added.
The Japanese border guard was killed on the south bank of the Amur River by fire from across the frontier.
The Joshu Maru has since moved up river on the Amur from. the junction, according to the dispatches.—Domei.
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