SAKHALIN DISPUTE

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 261, 2 August 1939, Page 9

SAKHALIN DISPUTE

Soviet Action Postponed TOKIO, July 31. The Foreign Office spokesman announced that -Soviet officials in Nicolaevsh, presumably acting on instructions from Moscow, htrve ordered the bailiffs to -postpone the attachment on North Sakhalin properties. Recent reports from Tokio stated that Japan had protested to Moscow against the alleged oppression of oil and coal companies in the northern part of Sakhalin Island, which a Russian law court fined large sums, in default confiscation, of property, owing to their failure to supply workers with necessary goods, the transport of which, the Japanese alleged, the Soviet had hampered. The Soviet returned the Note without considering it, the Assistant Foreign Commissar stating that it was unacceptable as it contained threats and was in the nature of an ultimatum. The Japanese Foreign Office spokesman said that Japan did not recognize the validity of the fines imposed. FEAR SOVIET RAIDS Chinese Flee From Centres In Manchukuo PEKING, July 31. Trains from Manchukuo are crowded with wealthy Chinese who fear that the Soviet’will bomb Harbin, Mukden and other cities.