London, June 18.
While Soviet penetration into Estonia and Lithuania appears to have been accomplished without incident, a demonstration in Riga led to two serious collisions with the police, it is reported by the German news agency.
Several people were killed and wounded, it is stated, when police Opened fire yesterday on a crowd outside the railway station, post office and police headquarters.
Latvian troops and tanks are said a mandate over French Indo-China for the duration of the European war, the "Japan Times," local English-language paper, declared yesterday, that there need be no waiting for an official declaration on the subject.
"Japan," the paper stressed, "is wholly opposed to any transfer of territories in the Far East to which she is not an agreeing party."
The daily added that Japan's policy of non-involvement in the European war connotes opposition to all manœuvres involving territorial changes which are related to war. "Obviously an American mandate over French possessions in the southwest area must tend to endanger the peaceful status quo."—Domei.
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