LINGERING DISTRUST
STILLNESS IN THE BATTLE AREA BOTH SIDES WATCHFUL (Recd This Day, 10.30 a.m.) TOKIO, August 11. With memories of nights of hand to hand fighting still fresh, the Russian and Japanese troops, after the cease fire, did not show any readiness to fraternise. An uncanny silence has replaced the ten days’ roar of gunfire. The weary and begrimed troops are peering across no man’s land, over which conversation is clearly heard. Both sides are maintaining a wary watchfulness, and apparently are not trusting the truce. The tension is expected to last for a few days until the commanders fully understand the position, distrust for the future mingling with relief over the armistice. “Now Tokio will not be bombed, so there is no need for me to go to the front,” is the topical comment of the man in the street. The “Nichi Niehl” warns that the' trouble is not yet over, for the Soviet is still the Soviet. MOSCOW OPINION A SKILFUL COMPROMISE (Recd This Day, 10.30 a.m.) MOSCOW, August 11. The truce is regarded as a skilful compromise, enabling Russia and Japan to adhere to principles.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 August 1938, Page 5
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