AN ARMISTICE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 189, 12 August 1938, Page 7

AN ARMISTICE

RUSSIA AND JAPAN CONFERENCE DECISION RETENTION OF OCCUPIED TERRITORY EFFECTIVE AT NOON (By Tc'.„i aph- Press Association—Coi srlght) LONDON, Aug. 11. The British United Press Moscow correspondent announced that M. Maxim Litvinoff, Soviet foreign Commissar, and Mr. Mamoru Shigemitsu, Japanese Ambassador in Moscow, after a four-hour conference agreed to an armistice, effective at noon on August 11, on a basis of new Japanese proposals. The conditions of the armistice provide that “troops on both sides will keep territory occupied at midnight on August 10, local time. Russia and Japan will send representatives to arrange the details of the cessation of hostilities. M. Shigemitsu’s conference with M. Ltivinoff opened at 7 p.m. and was suspended at 10 p.m., resumed again jt 11 p.m. and ended at midnight. OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT TERMS OF THE ARMISTICE •BOUNDARY COMMISSION T(X BE SET UP Received Aug. 11. 8.20 p.m. MOSCOW, Aug. 11. The armistice between Russian and Japan has been officially announced. It provides a boundary commission ©f two Soviet and two Japanese representatives, who will negotiate [with regard to a demarcation of the (frontier on a basis of the old Russo!Japanese map. presumably that attached to the 1860 Treaty. [ An official communique reveals that pie proposals on which the armistice was based came from M. Litvinolt [(Soviet Foreign Commissar), who Ulso suggested the border commission Should include an arbitrator from a third Power. Mr. Shingemitsu (Japan’s Ambassador) would not agree, and M. Litvinoff did not insist. Agreement is still to be reached regarding the basis on which the boundary commission will work, says the communique. M. Litvinoff proposed that there should be agreements and maps bearing the signatures of Chinese and Soviet plenipotentiary representatives. Mr. Shigemitsu suggested the inclusion of other documents and promised to refer the point to Tokio. “CEASE FIRE SOUNDED” VIOLENT ATTACK CEASES (PLANE FALLS AS BUGLES SOUND Received Aug. 12. 1.15 a.m. TOKIO, Aug. 11. After intermittent hostilities overnight Japanese buglers on the Changkufeng front sounded “cease lire’’ at noon, local time. Two hours previously the whole front was ablaze with rifle and shell lire. The Russians earlier had violently attacked t’»? Japanese lines, using hand grenades, but were repulsed. Five Soviet planes flew over Korea. One was brought down as the bugles rang out. Russians and Japanese were separated at Changkufeng by seventy yards, at Shaotsaoping by 320 yards, at Hill 52 by 430 yards, and at Kangwanping by 220 yards. The terms of the armistice have been received in Tokio without comment. Prices on the Stock Exchange ad- , vanced two to five points as a result of the armistice news. NOT FULLY SETTLED YET BUT SITUATION IS CLEARING Received Aug. 12, 12.50 a.m. MOSCOW, Aug. 11. The opinion is expressed in official circles that the situation is clearing, but it is by no means settled. The possibility of renewed outbreaks at Changkufeng and elsewhere is not eliminated. Major Battle Expected. A major battle was expected on the five-mile Changkufeng front, along which the Russians were massing. They were coming up along a road which was commanded by Japanese guns, which were silent because the Japanese were not anxious to violate Soviet territory. Five hundred yards separated the Russians and the Japanese. The latter were strongly entrenched behind barbed wire. Furious artillery and trench mortar exchanges were continued since dawn. Scores of Soviet planes were being concentrated at Hansh, 13 miles from Changkufeng, also on the shore of Possiet Bay. The military maintained full control of the heights of Changkufeng and Shatsaoping, stated a Tokio message, but they insisted that they had not advanced into Soviet territory, despite sustained provocation. The Dome! news agency reported that Japan had again protested to Moscow, alleging that Soviet troops crossed the Manchukuo frontier near Tungning. 100 miles north of Shatsaoping. and began trench-digging. The Japanese drove them out, killing two.