Manchoukuo and Japan, after many sharp border skirmishes with Mongolia agreed to an international conference to be held at the railway town of Manchouli where the passengers from the Trans-Siberian Railway change for the North Manchurian Lines. This conference broke down with nothing accomplished after six months of sessions. It was reconvened Tate in 1930. Then followed long adjouraments and many postpone ments. The public has lost track of this conference which seemed to have become a species of sem{-per~ manent commission. Presumably it now enjoying a recess.
In the first conference agreement as to the agenda had been dificult, the Mongolian instructions were Himited and they refused to discuss other subjects. Manchoukuo had sought without success to effect an exchange of representatives tobe stationed at the two capitals. The Sovietized Government at Ulanbator has marked a version fo what it considered potential espionage and declined to consider the matter.
Then it was suggested that com missioners should be stationed at towns near the border. Mongolia suggested that their man stay in Kan Chu Erh (Ganjur) northeast of Lake Buir, and tha the representatives! from Manchoukuo be quartered in an out-of-the-way village named This roused little
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