Tokyo, Feb. 16.
A sensation was created here today following receipt of information from "certain quarters" that a Soviet film studio in Moscow has recently produced a propaganda film of an extremely anti-Japanese nature, concerning the current Soviet-Japanese Fishery dispute. Reports state that the film is now showing in Moscow movie houses, Called "Soviet Sen Defense," the film depicts scenes wherein Japanese boats, fishing in northern waters under escort of several destroyers, are heavily bombed and sunk by Soviet bombers which fly to the scene from Vladivostok; according to the information, Well-informed sources believe that the Foreign Office will protest to the Soviet authorities and will demand the withdrawal of the picture from Soviet theatres Domei.
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