ARMISTICE DECLARED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 August 1938, Page 8

ARMISTICE DECLARED

RUSSIA AND JAPAN AGREE TO NEGOTIATE After Four-hour Conference in Moscow NEW JAPANESE PROPOSALS ACCEPTED AS BASIS By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 12.20 p.m.) LONDON, August 11. The British United Press Moscow (correspondent says it is announced that M. Litvinoff and M. Shigemitsu, after a four hour conference, agreed on an armistice, to be effective at noon on August 11, on the basis of the new. Japanese proposals. The conditions of the armistice provide that the troops on both sides shall keep the territory occupied at midnight on August 10, local time and also that Russia and Japan shall send representatives to arrange details of the cessation of hostilities. M. Shigemitsu's conference with M. Litvinov opened at 7 p.m., was suspended at 10 p.m., resumed again at 11 p.m., and ended at midnight. \ FRONTIER CROSSED. RUSSIAN OFFICIAL ADMISSION. WEDGE DRIVEN IN CHANGKUFENG SECTOR. (Received This Day, 12.15 p.m.) MOSCOW, August 10. Admitting that Soviet troops have crossed the frontier of Manchukuo, Russia officially announces that the troops have forced a wedge in the Changkufeng sector and occupied positions three hundred metres across the line marked on the map which Russia insists Japan must accept as the frontier, while the Japanese occupy Bezymyan Hill, two hundred metres inside the Soviet area. • The Russians repeatedly repulsed Japanese attacks. Artillery lire continues. ANOTHER JAPANESE PROTEST. INVASION OF SOVIET TERRITORY DENIED. NEW INCIDENT REPORTED. (Received This Day, 12.15 p.m.) TOKIO, August 10. The military maintain complete control of the heights of Changkufeng and Shatsaoping, but insist that they have not advanced a step into Soviet territory despite sustained provocation. The Domei News Agency reports that Japan has again protested to Moscow, alleging that Soviet troops crossed the Manchukuo frontier near ’ Tungning, a hundred miles north of Shatsaoping, and began trench digging. The Japanese drove them out, killing two. BAIT OF COLONIES. REPORTED OFFER BY JAPAN TO GERMANY. NO CHANGE IN NAZI ATTITUDE. (Received This Day, 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, August 10. The ‘-Daily Telegraph’s” Berlin correspondent says well-informed circles state that Count Togo, in conversation with Herr von Ribbentrop (German Foreign Minister), made far-reaching offers regarding former German colonies in the Far East, but Herr von Ribbentrop insisted that Germany, despite her friendship saw no means of practically assisting Japan against Russia. The official German view remains that every effort is essential to prevent extension of hostilities. Advice to that effect has been given to Tokio.