Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-02
JAPAN PROVOKING
FRICTION, SAY REDS
Militarists Are Accused OF
Seeking Complications
on Frontier.
By the Associated Press.


MOSCOW, July 1.-THE official
press charged today that incidents
along the Soviet frontier In the Far
East have been provoked deliberately
by Japanese militarists to stir Russian
forces to countermeasures and thus
bring on grave complications.
A note of protest concerning the
whole series of alleged violations of
Soviet territory by Japanese and Man
chukuan troops and gunboats during
the last two months was delivered yes
terday to Toxic.
"These incidents may be explained
only in the sense that there is q def
mite plan by Japanese militarists to
create complications on the frontier"
asserted the Communist party organ,
Pravda.
Responsibility on Japan.
"The responsibility for these cum
ming attacks and invasion Of our ter
ritory by Japanese troops and murder
Of our frontier guards-intended to
cause serious conflicts between the
~. W. CoIS 6x-
clusively on the Japanese government"
Four frontier guards were declared
in the Soviet protest to have been
killed by invaders. The note warned
Japan that q continuation Of the
incidents may have very serious con-
sequences in the relations of the
U. S. S. r. and Japan and on peace
in the Far East"
SOVIET troops have been holding
themselves in check so as not to
play into the hands Of the japanese,
the press said, but Pravda added:
1.-THE Japanese and Manchukuans
must realize that we have sufficient
forces in the Far East to exterminate
all these provocateur bands If we 50
desire"
Soviet Waters Penetrated.
Manchukuan gunboats have been
penetrating Soviet waters along the
Amur River with the deliberate pur-
pose Of setting a precedent for regu-
lar navigation of the Soviet inland
waterway, the paper charged.
THE Soviet government and public
opinion do not intend to permit the
frontier to be a continued object of
attack"
The protest was presented in Toxic
by Ambassador Constantin Yureneff.
He asserted
Taking into consideration these
violations of the Soviet frontier by
Japanese and Manchukuan authori-
ties, which may bring very serious
consequences in the relations between
the U. S. S. r. and Japan and to the
cause of peace in the Far East, the
government of the U. S. S. r. has
instructed me to present a determined
protest"
Trespasses Are Charged.
An official announcement Of the
protest disclosed long series Of al
legged trespasses on Soviet ground by
both Manchukuan ships and soldiers.
1t said that there were several in
stances Of Soviet frontier guards be-
ing fired upon and suffering fatalities.
| The specific charges of incidents
during the last few months included
a declaration that two Manchukuan
gunboats penetrated the Soviet branch
Of the Amur River, and. training their
guns on Soviet frontier cutters, dis
obeyed their orders to halt.
Manchukuan military detachments
were alleged to have ambushed Soviet
guards on patrol in Soviet territory
May /, killing two guards. Another
guard was said to have been killed by
machine gun fire from the Manchu-
kuan banks Of the Amur May 6.
The protest charged that another
guard was killed June and his body
carried of to Manchukuo.
On June 16, the note set forth, the
Soviet village of Papiha was bonn
barded from the Manchukuan side Of
the Amur. Manchukuan boats also
were alleged to have been approach.
ing the city of Khabarovsk, using
Soviet waterways.