Moscow, June 25.
NCIDENTS along the Outer Mongolian-Manchoukuo frontier coincided with the signature of a Sino-Soviet commercial accord on June 16, Russian political quarters remarked today. Some circles even stated that, "The Japanese suspect this agreement of concealing a pact of assistance.
Or, at any rate, they believe that it can considerably increase the supply of Soviet war materials to China."
They also recalled the significant declaration recently made by the Foreign Commissar, M. Viacheslav Molotoff, who affirmed that the U.S.S.R. would defend Outer Mongolia as it would its own territory.
In these circumstances, much attention was attracted today by the publication of a communique by the official Tass news agency, which gave full details on the repeated recent border affrays, land and air, between Outer Mongolian and Japanese forces, Tass declares itself authorized to state exactly what had happened along the Eastern frontiers during the past month,
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