RUSSO-JAPANESE ARMISTICE OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 271, 12 August 1938, Page 11

RUSSO-JAPANESE ARMISTICE OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED

Joint Commission To Negotiate Border Demarcation TROOPS ON BOTH SIDES TO REMAIN IN STATUS QUO Proposal For Arbitrator From Third Power Rejected By Telegraph.— Kress Assn.—Copyright. (Received August 11, 9.45 p.m.) MOSCOW, August 11. An armistice in the Russo-Japanese border fighting was officially announced to-day. It provides for a boundary commission of two Soviet and two Japanese representatives, who will negotiate the demarcation of the frontier on the basis of the old RussoJapanese map, presumably that attached to the 1860 treaty. The armistice conditions provide that the troops on both sides shall keep to the territory they occupied at midnight (loca. time) on August 10, and also that Russia and Japan shall send representatives to arrange details for the cessation of hostilities. Mr. Shigemitsu’s conference with M. Litvinov opened at 7 p.m., was suspended at 10 p.m., was resumed at 11 p.m., and ended at mtdlllg An official communique reveals that the proposals on which the armistice is based came from M. Litvinov, Soviet Foreign Minister who also suggested that the border commission should include an arbitrator, from a third Power. Mr. Shigemitsu Japanese Ambassador in Moscow, however, would not agree, and M. Litvinov did not insist. An agreement is still to be reached regarding the basis on which the boundary commission will work, says the communique. . , , M Litvinov also proposed that there should be agreements and maps bearing the signatures of both _ Chinese and Soviet plempotentiary representatives. Mr. Shigemitsu suggested the inclusion of other documents and promised to refer the point to Tokio.