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JAPANESE THREAT OF FORCE IN MOSCOW M. Litvinoff Quick And Sharp In Repartee
Japanese Inner Cabinet In
Close Conclave
Moscow, To-day.
HITLER'S TRIP TO MUNICH
Munich, To-day. Chancellor Hitler motored, from Berchstesgaden to Munich yester- day afternoon.
Captain Wiedmann, Herr Hit- Ier's Adjutant, who has been in express from Berlin at the same London, arrived at Munich by air
time-Reuter.
KIUKIANG BOMBED
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Nanchang, To-day. Japanese bombers subjected Kiu- kiang to two raids yesterday.
The first raid was staged around 9 a.m, when, five aircraft bombed in the south-eastern outskirts,
"At 2.30 o'clock in the afternoon, 29 Japanese planes showered the suburbs with scores of missiles, Little damage, however, was caus-
ntral News.
The threat that Japan will use force unless the So- viet troops are withdrawn from Changkufeng Hill is reported to have been made by Mr. M. Shigemitsu, Japanese Ambassador to Moscow, when called upon the Soviet Foreign Commis- sar, M. Maxim Litvinoff, and demanded the withdrawal of the Soviet troops. The Ambassador, Mr. Shigemitsu is reported to
have made threat when M. Litvinoff insisted clared, had been shot on Soviet ceeded elsewhere, he should that the region was Soviet territory.
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OFFICIAL STATEMENT
Moscow, To-day.
Japanese secret treaties would be not valid if the publication of the treaty or other document was re- quired to make it effective.
The Japanese gendarme, he de-
territory where he had no business to go.
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M. Litvinoff lodged a counter-in that territory in order to
As regards the Japanese Ambas- be sador's hint that Japan might be protest that the Japanese had on hand should troubles arise in compelled to use force to bring trespassed on the Soviet Embassy the Far East.-Trans-Ocean.
about the withdrawal of Soviet grounds in Tokyo without police
troops, M. Litvinoff declared intervention and demanded the
according to the official statement punishment of those responsible
that the threats which Japan and guarantees for the future.
appeared regard as a diplomatic In supporting the claim
An official Soviet Russian state-instrument would fall to intimidate garding Changkufeng, the Com-ment concerning the conversa- the Soviet Russian Government. missar cited the map attached to tion which took place between M. M. Litvinoff finally referred to a the Treaty of Changchung in Litvinoff and Mr. Shigemitsu was report received from Tokyo which 1869. Reuter.
issued last evening.
assented that the Japanese police. The statement clearly shows did not take any action when the that the conversation took place extraterritorial rights of the Soviet in a rather undiplomatic tone. Embassy in Tokyo were violated. Tokyo, To-day. M. Litvinoff flatly rejected the The statement falis to reveal whether The Russo-Japanese frontier in-demand for the immediate eva-the Japanese Ambassador replied cident near Hunchun continues to cuation of Hunshun referring to to this charge Trans-Ocean. cause grave concern here. Numa map drawn up in 1869 when erous conferences have taken place the Russo-Chinese Treaty was between different Ministers. The signed and of which only one ori- most important of these was be-ginal is in existence, namely; tween the Premier, Prince Konoye, that in the hands of the Soviet and the War Minister, General Government.
CABINET DISCUSSION.
Itagaki, after which the Foreign According to this map Hun- Minister, General Ugaki and the shun lies within Soviet territory. Minister of Finance, Mr. Ikeda, He declared that troop move- were also received by the Premier, ments in Soviet territory are a The Japanese State Advisory matter which concerns only the Council also met to-day under the Soviet, which could not tolerate chairmanship of the Premier, to any interference by a foreign
Power consider the measures to be taken, the former commander of the Ja- panese troops in the Shanghai re- gion, General Mataui, and the form- er Colonial Minister, Ohtani, par- ticipating in the discussion.
The Japanese press and public are following developments in the newest crisis with even more in- terest than has been hitherto de- voted to events in China.
GRAVE CONCERN
LITVINOFF ASTONISHED
The Japanese Ambassador ex- pressed the conviction that M. Litvinoff's reply would not satisfy the Japanese Government since the Soviet based its attitude. on a map which had never been published. Unless measures for restoring or- der on the frontier were taken, the Japanese Government might be compelled to come to the conclu- sion that the application of force was necessary.
The Ambassador once more de manded the withdrawal of Soviet troops and protested against the shooting of a Japanese gendarme by Soviet troops at Hunshun.
The action of the Soviet Union in massing troops on the frontier has caused grave concern, one paper, the "Nichi Nichi" declaring that the Soviet army in the Vladivostok re- gion numbers over 100,000 men and that a further 400,000 troops are _stationed east of the Baikal Lake. M. Litvinoff expressed astonish- The paper estimates that 50,000 ment that an experienced diplomat like Mr. Shigemitsu should doubt soldiers have been concentrated on the eastern frontier of Manchukuo frontier between two States and an official map demarcating the between Fossiet in the south and pointed out that the fact whether Nikolsk in the north. The Vladis the map had been published or not vostok military aerodrome contains was as regards the validity of the about 400 planes, it is stated, and
important marine base has also been developed there in recent months. Further potential military
map
LEAST REASON
TASS REPORT
According to the Tass News Agency, Litvinoff, in replying
to Mr. Shigemitu said: “If Mr. Shigemitsu regarded as a good diplomatic method the threats of intimidation which had suc-
know that he cannot find a suC- cessful application of this me- thod in Moscow.”
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M. Litvinoff expressed his surprise that an experienced diplomat like Mr. Shigemitsu should treat official-maps- s0 disdainfully.
"It was strange to hear re- marks like Mr. Shigemitsu's from the representative of government which, by a long way, had not made a practice of publishing all the agreements it concluded."
"That Government could scar- cely agree that the secret trea- ties which it concluded were
valid. The Japanese Goy-
ment would hardly agree”
change the location of its own troops on such unfounded de- mands as Mr. Shi made. Reuter.
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