ARMISTICE TERMS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 August 1938, Page 5

ARMISTICE TERMS

RUSSO=JAPANESE BORDER DISPUTE BOUNDARY COMMISSION TO BE SET UP. JAPAN REJECTS THIRD PARTY ARBITRATOR. By Telegraph—Press Association. Copyright. MOSCOW, August 11. An armistice in the Russo-Japanese border fighting was officially announced today. It provides for a boundary commission of two Soviet and two Japanese representatives, who will negotiate the demarcation of the frontier on the basis of the Old Russo-Jap-anese map—presumably that attached to the 1860 treaty. ' An official communique reveals that the proposals on which the armistice is based came from M. Litvinov, Soviet Foreign Minister, who also suggested that the border commission should include an arbitrator from a third Power. Mr Shigemitsu, Japanese Ambassador in Moscow, however, would not agree, and M. Litvinov did not insist. An agreement is still to be reached regarding the basis on which the boundary commission will work, says the communique. M. Litvinov also proposed that there should be agreements and maps bearing the signatures of both Chinese and Soviet plenipotentiary representatives.

Mr Shigemitsu suggested the inclusion of other documents and promised to refer the point to Tokio. CEASE FIRE SOUNDS HALT IN HEAVY FIGHTING. SOVIET PLANE BROUGHT DOWN. TOKIO, August 11. After intermittent hostilities overnight, Japanese buglers on the Changkufeng front sounded “Cease fire” at noon local time today. Two hours previously the whole front had been ablaze with rifle and shell fire. The Russians earlier had violently attacked the 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 70 yards, at Shaotsaqping 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 advanced from two to five points on the stock exchange as a result of the news. OUTLOOK UNCERTAIN. POSSIBILITY OF RENEWED . OUTBREAKS. MOSCOW, August 11. The opinion ,is expressed in official circles that the situation is clearing, but it is by no means settled. The posibility of renewed outbreaks in Changkufeng and elsewhere is not eliminated.