Asked regarding a foreign press report that the Soviet Government was not taking a serious view of the border incident, which, it was said to contend, had been caused by the ambiguity of the frontier line, the spokesman said that the Soviet Government admitted the ambiguity of frontier line, if press reports were ect, thus conceding at least one half of the claim of Japan and Manchoukuo.
The Soviet Union, the' spokesman went on, should clarify the situation by withdrawing their troops from the Chankaofeng area, removing military works, and restoring the status quo before the incident. M A correspondent of the "Asahi Shimbun," who proceeded to Keiki, a Korean border town on the Tumen River, reports that the Japanese and Manchoukuo authorities are "preparing for any eventuality."
The correspondent says that about two divisions of the Red Army are now massed at Novokievsk, while four military airfields have been established between that point and Parapash.—Reuter.
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