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SOVIET AND RUMANIA

INCIDENTS ON FRONTIER

"HOSTILE ACTIONS"

(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyrislit.) MOSCOW, August 30.

The Tass News Agency announced that M. Dekanozov, the Deputy Commissar for Foreign Affairs, handed the Rumanian Ambassador, M. Gafencu, a Note, on August 19. protesting against provocative actions by Rumanian troops on the SovietRumauia'n frontier and emphasising that a repetition of firing 'on Soviet troops by Rumanian troops, to which Soviet frontier guards in some cases had been compelled to reply, could not be tolerated.

Yesterday M. Dekanozov handed to M. Gafencu another Note protesting against "new he/stile actions by Rumanian frontier detachments .and army units on the Soviet frontier and also by Rumanian military aircraft." The Note declared: "The matter may take a grave turn if casualties occur."

The Soviet Government placed on the Rumanian Government the entire responsibility for the consequences of the above-mentioned actions.

A Note submitted by M. Gafencu yesterday contested the Soviet allegations, and added that the Rumanian Government had repeatedly instructed its frontier guards to do their utmost to avoid incidents which would disturb the good-neighbourly relations of Russia and Rumania. M. Gafencu referred to the occurrences in which Russians had fired on Rumanian frontier detachments and Soviet aircraft had crossed the frontier.

M. Dekanozov • replied that M. Gafencu's information would bo investigated, and. he added that the Soviet required an early satisfactory answer to its second protest because, in spite of the Rumanian Note, Rumanian troops were continuing violations of the Soviet ■ frontier.

,LONDON, August 30

Latest reports state that the situation as between Russia and Rumania is quiet. '