Fishermen Said to Have Been Carried Off Tokyo, May 18.
A raid by Soviet border guards is reported in a message reaching here from Chairmusu, Ktrin Province, Manchoukuo.
A group of Soviet troops, it is alleged, suddenly crossed the Manchoukuo-Soviet frontier, on May 7. tu the Amur River at a point 20 kilometres west of Fuyan, in the northern extremity of Kirin province.
They are said to have seized two Manchurian fishermen. One was killed en the spot and the other carried into Soviet territory.
A report from Seishin, Korea, states that information was received there yesterday indicating that out of six Japanese vessels alleged to have been seized by Soviet guardships on the high seas off the Maritime Provinces last month, four will be released as soon as the court's decision is rendered at the public trial of the case now going on.
The fate of the other two vessels remains uncertain.—Reuter.
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