FRESH INCIDENT ON FRONTIER

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21745, 30 March 1936, Page 11

FRESH INCIDENT ON FRONTIER

EASTERN BORDERS OF

SOVIET

JAPANESE BLAMED FOR

LAST CLASH

DISCUSSIONS PROCEEDING

IN MOSCOW

j (tTSITED PRESS ASSOCXATIOM —COPTBIGHT.) ! (Received March 29, 8.5 p.m.) MOSCOW, March 28. While M. Stomoniakov (Assistant Commissar for Foreign Affairs) and Mr Ohta (Japanese Ambassador) were discussing the Manchukuo frontier clash on March 26 they received a report of a fresh incident in which five Japanese cavalrymen crossed into Soviet territory and attacked Soviet guards. Three of the Japanese were killed and the remaining two fled, leaving a i rnachine-gun. j M. Stomoniakov produced con--1 elusive evidence that the clash on March 26 had occurred in Soviet territory. He pointed out that in

spite of the promise of the Japanese Government to prevent violations of | the frontier, attacks on the Soviet iv>ere more frequent, i Mr Ohta declared that Japan considered it impracticable to include within the duty of the frontier commission the finding of a solution for all frontier conflicts.

He suggested that the commission should be limited to Soviet-Man-.chukuo frontier incidents and the appointment of other commissions to deal \?ith*the Manchukuo-Mongolian frontier. 1 ... , , The Council of MmiSiew-o* Outer Mongolia has decided to seek co-operation of the Soviet to pre serve the independence of the Mongolian republics. [A message from Moscow on Thursday stated that the Soviet had protested strongly to the Japanese Government after a serious new frontier incident between Japanese and Soviet soldiers, in which a number were killed and wounded on both sides. The Soviet Government alleged that the firing was begun by a Japanese detachment, which crossed the Manchukuo border near Hunchun, and attacked Soviet' guards, who returned the fire. The Japanese retired leaving two dead, but later returned with ma-chine-guns. Firing continued for some hours till the Japanese were finally driven back into Manchukuo. The Soviet demanded an immediate investigation, punishment of the guilty and compensation for the families of the dead Russians.]

upon which our own safety may depend.” The “Daily Telegraph” states: “Although Germany’s act is accompanied by an offer to guarantee peace for 25 years, she has declined every suggested gesture that would open the way to negotiations.” It emphasises the strictly limited range of the proposed staff conversations, which imply no political obligation. Collective security, it adds, requires either the full and unequivocal support of Germany, or must be obtained by banding together all nations which fear an increase in German armaments.

The “Daily Herald,” while expressing consciousness of present lifflculties, expresses disappointment at Mr Eden’s speech because of the prominence given to the Government’s anxieties for western Europe. It says that he allowed the league and collective security to fade into second place. The “Daily Mail” urges that even now it is not too late for an AngloFrench alliance, the basis of which should be a guarantee by the two powers of the integrity of each

other's territories in Europe. The “News-Chronicle” says: “We ere committed neither to France nor to Germany, but we are committed to the league. It is to a peace so organised that the British Government is asking both France and Germany to make Their essential contributions.”

FRANCO-SOVIET PACT

NOW IN FORCE

FOREIGN MINISTERS EXCHANGE RATIFICATIONS

(Received March 29, 7.5 p.m.) PARIS, March 27. M. Flandin (French Foreign Minister) and M. Maxim Litvinoff (Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs) exchanged ratifications of the Franco-Soviet pact, which is now in force.

GERMANY WILL NOT

GIVE WAY

DENUNCIATION OF JEWS AND

BOLSHEVIKS

BERLIN, March 27,

“If you are awaiting the concessions you are thinking of you will wait until Doomsday,” declared the German Minister for Air (General Goering), speaking at the Deutschland Hall. “Does Mr Eden think we are the same as the previous German Govment, which always said, ‘All right, go ahead’? Versailles would have been impossible had we had Herr Hitler in 1918. “The Jews are always with 80l sheviks on the anti-German front. We have seen the Jew Litvinof? in London, battling about the conciliation of nations. The Jews have been associated with the Bolsheviks in recent events in Spain, Uruguay, Chile, and Brazil.”