'To ensure the safety of this indus try the map-makers for Manchoukuo have shown a new boundary, entirely Lake' Buir. Upc what particular record, of the vague and Glastie lines in the pas this claim was based, has not been' announced.
The writer was interested (o note, on the opposite walls of a small_room, in the headquarters of the Kwantung Army, two maps, both of which had been prepared by the Geographhieal Section of the Japanese War Oflice. The newer one a topographical map of Manchoukuo on a. scale of one million to one (say 1/16th of an inch to the mile) showed the disputed lake safely surrounded by the border of Manchoukuo. 'The older one on a slightly smaller scale showed the border cutting through the Jake, from a point opposite an old highway, in a north-easterly direction to the' right bank of the Halhar River, clearly assigning two thirds of the lake and complete control of the river to Mongolia.
The Foreign Office of Manchoukuo has already made long and thorough research into the records of this 700 kin, border line through—thinly populated country, and it is not im-Probable that the intimate relations how existing between the Japanese Army and the Provisional Government at Peiping will make available to the authorities of Manchoukuo a considerable volume of Chinese records concerning the origins of the old administrative boundaries which ow form international border lines.
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