Tokyo, July 17.
Japan will ask for the Feconsideration of the reported Soviet refusal to withdraw Russian troops from Changkaofeng, claimed by the Jap-nese and Manchurian authorities to be located in Manchoukuo territory, Foreign OMe circles here said today.
'A new protest, conveying Japan's firm determination to demand the evacuation of the area by Soviet troops, probably would be filed in Moscow in the next few days, they said, Exceptional importance was _attached by Japanese military circles to the alleged seizure of Changkaofeng because of its proximity to the Manchoukuo-Korean border. Soviet troops are now 500 metres from this boundary, reports reaching here said, Military experts today again sisted that a minute examination of the maps prepared by the Russian Imperial General Sta and _that drawn up at the time of the Sin Russian border demarcation confer ence in Hunchun in 1908 show th Changkaofeng was regarded by the Russians as Chinese soil.
'A close watch on the diplomatic developments following the Japanese protest of July 15 to Moscow was being kept by the Japanese military commands both in Korea and in Manchoukuo—Domei,
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