Moscow, July 25.
Its reported from Harbin that anxiety and indignation at the onl rages of the Japanese police are growing among the Soviet citizens.
Recently open attempts to force Soviet citizens to renounce their citizenship of the USSR, are becoming evermore frequent. Simul taneously, a new mass "pogrom" is openly prepared against the Soviet citizens. Policemen marke by special signs houses inhabited by the citizen of the USSR. The "white guard' press cynically declares that the signs of the houses "will help to recognize the enemies'
All these actions are made not only with the knowledge, but under the protection of the Japane-Manchurian authorities who evidently do not realize that the position of the citizens is regulated on the basis of roeiprocity—Tass, Tokyo, July, 27.
report carried by' the "Nicht Nichi" yesterday of a clash between "Soviet and" Manchoukuo troops on July 22 on the Manchou-Kuo side of the Ussuri River was described ay being nearly accurate by the spokesman of the Foreign OMce this morning.
He said that, according to the ofticial version, about 60 Soviet soldiers aboard three small Soviet gunboats fired on a party of Manchoukuo soldiers travelling on the Ussuri River on July 21, as a result of which 10 Manchoukuo soldiers disappeared.
The Soviet troops, the spokesman continued, landed on an island on the Ussuti River, where they were reinforced.
'Then, on July 22, about 160 Soviet soldiers went into' Manchoukuo territory and set fire to the villages of Hsinhsintong and Yaolingtze, roughly 70 miles south of Habarovsk.
About 00 Manchoukuo border wuards, operating from three direc tions, attacked and routed the Soviet troops after an engagement lasting five hours.
Replying to a question, the spokesman said that the official report did not mention the number of casualties or the weapons used.
Ho disclosed that Manchoukuo filed strong protest with the Soviet authorities on July 23, through the Soviet Consular authorities in Harbis connection with the incident—
Reuter.
Reply to Not Tokyo, July 27.
Soviet-Japanese diplomatic negotiations in connection with the Chang-Kaofeng hill incident continued to drag slowly along an uncertain path, today with the door to direct discussions on the spot apparently closed and attention now centred on authorities in Moscow.
'A. press message from Changchung said two Japanese messengers who returned from Soviet territory yes: terday brought no reply to a Sapa ese-Manchoukuo note requesting. the evacuation of the Changkaofeng The Soviet commander at Novokievsk, according to the press report, sent no answer to the official note ispatehed by the Manchoukuo bor~ der defence headquarters, and his Silence caused considerable wond ment as (0 the necessity for keeping the Japanese messengers in Soviet! territory since July 18, since their mission apparently accomplished. nothing.
"Oppression" in Saghalien Representations, against allegedly uunfust oppressive.measures imposed on Japanese petroleum and coal en-{erprises in northern Saghalien are being made.by the Japanese Government to Moscow and to Soviet authorities on the spot, it was revealed last night by the Foreign Omee.
The Director of the Bureau of formation of the Gaimusho told newspaper men that "for two years the Soviet pressure on Japanese petro-Teum and coal interests has been very severe. As a result of such pressure the coal enterprises have been obliged to their operations for a time," he said.
"Petroleum enterprises also_have been compelled to reduce their operations. At present 150 Japanese subjects and nine fishing boats are delained by the Soviet authorities.
"This year again, with the operating season having' set in with the summer, the Soviet interference with these Japsnese interests has become glaringly apparent."—Domei.
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