"Japs" Given Lesson Moscow, Jan. 8.
The diplomatic fencing match between the Japanese Ambassador to Russia, Mr. Shigenori Togo, and the Soviet Foreign Minister, M. Maxim Litvinoff, was continued in a two-hour conversation this afternoon without resulting in any progress toward the settlement of the Far Eastern fisheries controversy, Japanese sources told the United Press.
Today's conference between the two diplomats was the eleventh in a series of talks in which Japan has sought a renewal of her fisheries agreement with Moscow Which expired December 31.
The Soviet press, which is government controlled, indicated the attitude of Moscow on the fisheries question: oday. "The Japanese Government," said the "Red Star," organ of the Red Army, "is overlooking the fact that it is the Soviet Government which enables Japanese fishermen to catch fish in Soviet waters, and not the contrary.
The paper concluded its review of the present stalemate in Soviet-Japanese negotiations with a reminder of the Changkaofeng incident of 1938. "The Japanese, from their own experience, have been convinced there is a substantial difference between the Tsarist army and the Red Army," the paper said. "At Lake Khasan the Red Army gave the 'Japs' a good lesson. The Soviet people will never, nowhere and ton one allow the violation of their rights."—United Press, Kamenev Dismissal Rumours Moscow, Jan. 8.
Commenting on reports abroad that "General Kamenev, Commander of the Ural military district, h; been relieved of his functions," competent quaters here asserted today, that "as far as we know the! Ural district is under the command of General Safronov."—Havas.
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