Tokyo, July 27.
The Foreign Office issued a statement today blaming the unfavourable attitude of the Soviet for the deadlock, since the Spring of 1937, in the negotiations, begun in 1932, between Russia and Japan for the establishment of two commissions, one to re-demarcate the Soviet-Manchoukuo boreer, and the other to settle frontier dispute.
The statement said that the Soviet insisted, but Japan and Manchoukuo could not accept, until re-demarcation had been effected, 1. That the frontier line claimed by the Soviet should be respected by Japan and Manchukuo; 2. That, in the composition of the commissions, Japan and Manchukuo should be considered as one unit and the Soviet the other, whereas Japan and Manchukuo wanted to be considered as two separate units with the Soviet as the third.
The statement emphasised the im portance that the Japanese Government attached to the re-demarcation of the boundary as a means of obviate ing frontier incidents and securing harmonious relations between Soviet Russia and Japan—Reuter.
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