JAPAN AND THE SOVIET
AEROPLANE SHOT DOWN
FRANK EXPLANATION
United Press Association—By Electric Teleeraph—Copyrißlu (Received March 6, 11 a.m.) TOKIO, March 5. The recent incidents on the Manchukuo frontier in which a Japanese aeroplane was said to have been shot down by Soviet troops, seem to have been settled by a conversation at Moscow between the Japanese Ambassador and the Vice-Foreign Commissar,' M.Sokolnikov. The latter declared that the shooting against the Japanese aeroplane was a warning to avoid Soviet territory. The Ambassador complained, if it was only a warning, why were bullets used. M. Sokolnikov reDlied that it was the Soviet custom.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 55, 6 March 1934, Page 7
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