JAPAN AND RUSSIA

Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 September 1939, Page 6

JAPAN AND RUSSIA

TRUCE DECLARED IN MONGOLIA Commission to Define Boundary OFFICIAL STATEMENTS BY BOTH SIDES DEMOCRACIES AND THE WAR IN CHINA (By Telegraph.—Press Association. —Copyright.) LONDON, September 16. The official agency in Moscow announces that Japan and Russia have agreed to a Manchukuan armistice on the following' terms: — First, Japanese Manchukuan and Soviet Mongolian troops to cease hostilities at 2 a.m. (midnight 8.5. T.) on. September 16. Secondly combatants to remain on the lines occupied at 1 p.m. (11 a.m. 8.5. T.), September 15. Thirdly, representatives of both sides to carry out the above agreements immediately. Fourthly, prisoners to be exchanged forthwith. The Japanese Ambassador in Moscow, Mr Togo, and the Soviet Foreign Minister, M. Molotov, further agreed that a commission consisting of two delegates on each side shall .be organised at the earliest, opportunity to establish the precise frontier in the disputed area. According to a Shanghai message the Japanese army spokesman, said the Japanese-Soviet hostilities on the Man-ehukuan-Mongol border-ceased at. 1 p.m. A Tokio message states that the Foreign Office confirmed the Russian-Japanese truce with provision for fixing the border bv commission.

The newspaper “Ilochi” declared that the Tokio-Berlin Axis is obsolete in so far as anti-Communism is concerned. However, the Japanese-German spiritual front remains. While the democracies pursue a pro-Chiang Kai-shek policy, they should be deemed Japan’s enemies.