The Archive · 1938

Manchoukuo-Soviet Friction

Amicable Settlement Expected Despite Fresh Incidents Along the Border 'FRESH incident, in which Tokyo, July 26. further Soviet violation of the Manchoukuo border was alleged to have occurred, was reported in Japanese dispatches today. The reports followed shortly after receipt of the news in Tokyo of the safe return of the two missengers who were sent to the Soviet border by the Japanese authorities, on July 18, with a note requesting the withdrawal of the Soviet troops from the Changkaofeng ares Twenty Soviet infantrymen and 30 eavalrymen, the Japanese dispatches aid, penetrated into Manchoukuo territory near Shaopaling Hill, near HMunehun, yesterday, but were subsequently driven out by Manchoukuo border patrols. Exactly how the Soviet troops were ejected was not stated.

Although it is" likely to evoke the usual protests by Japan and Manchoukuo, no. great importance attached! to this latest alleged incident.

At the same time, the prospect of an amicable settlement of the Changkao feng affair looms even brighter with report from Changehun that Manchoukuo ix prepared to consider the establishment of boundary commissions "it. this Is formally proposed by

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