RUSSIA AND CHINA
FAR EAST AGREEMENT CONCESSIONS FOR SOVIET tßecd. T3O p.m.) NEW YORK, Auk. Stt The Washington correspondent of the Ken* York Times says it is learned that Dr Sonne's agreement with Moscow provides that Manchuria and Inner Mongolia will eventually come under Chinese sovereignty, though the Russians will acquire 50 per cent of control of the Chinese Eastern and South Manchuria railways. Port. Arthur, in Kwantung Peninsula, will become a Russian naval and military base, while half the docks and commercial facilities in Dairen. north. east of Port Arthur, probably will be reserved for Russian use. mili force surrenders CRecd, 7.30 p.m.) GUAM, Auk. The United States Navy announced that the commander of the small .Japanese garrison on Mili Island, in the Marshalls group, which was by-passed 18 months ago, surrendered today aboard a United States destroyer-escort. American forces will occupy Mili within * few daYS.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume 82, Issue 25289, 24 August 1945, Page 7
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