SHOOTING JAPANESE PLANE
RUSSIANS EXPLAIN WARNING.
INCIDENT BELIEVED SETTLED.
By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright, Tokio, March 5.
Recent Japanese and Soviet plane incidents seem to have been settled by a conversation at Moscow between the Japanese Ambassador and the ViceForeign Commissar, M. Sokolnikova, the latter declaring that the shooting against the Japanese plane was a warning to avoid Soviet territory. The Ambassador asked why bullets were used if it was only a warning. M. Sokolnikova replied: “That is the Soviet custom.”
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Taranaki Daily News, 7 March 1934, Page 7
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