WAR FEAR FADES.
SOVIET-JAP. SETTLEMENT.
(Received 2 p.m.)
MOSCOW, July 2.
The Japanese Ambassador, Mr. Ohta, after conferring with the Foreign Commissioner, M. Litvinoff, announced that the frontier incident at Amur had been settled, the Soviet agreeing to with- i draw its patrols from Bolshoi and Sennaka Islands on Manchukuo's agreeing similarly. Conferences lasted all day, and some of them were heated. A Tokyo message stated that the opinion prevalent there was that the Amur clash would not lead to war. It was believed the Soviet had created the affiiir for the purpose of divert nig the attention of the public and the aimy from recent internal upheavals, and aL to Impress tlie Japanese that the Red Army, nevertheless, is still ready for business.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 156, 3 July 1937, Page 9
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