Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the week, Mr. Saburo Ohta, third secretary of the Japanese embassy in Moscow, arrived in Tokyo, having crossed Siberia by railroad and taken ship at Vladivostok, not far from the battle line. Said he: "The central authorities of the Soviet Union are following a non-aggravation policy. After having been repulsed with heavy losses the Soviet troops will not attempt more counterattacks. During my trip through Siberia all was quiet and I saw no signs of disturbance in Vladivostok...
...incensed. "It is crazy," one of them exploded to a correspondent, "for the Russians to attempt to retake Changkufeng!" Meanwhile Moscow, with something at last to boast about, admitted heavy fighting, announced that the Russian frontier had been "cleansed" of Japanese, a claim which the Japanese promptly denied. In Tokyo, the Foreign Office described conversations between its Ambassador to the Soviet Union and Foreign Commissar Litvinov which left the diplomatic situation...
...engagement, amounting to full-dress warfare occurred last week at disputed Changkufeng Hill close to the point where the Soviet-Man-chukuo border reaches the Sea of Japan. Terse Moscow communiqués said the Japanese had been "defeated," that the Soviet Chargé d'Affaires in Tokyo had been ordered "to lodge with the Japanese Government an energetic protest and to draw its attention to the gravest possible consequences of the actions of Japanese militarists. ..." A detailed Japanese official communique described a "terrible fight" in which Japanese forces worsted Soviet troops who "used mechanized units, including tanks...
Japanese cities in the west, which would be the first victims of a Soviet bombing raid from Vladivostok against the Island Empire, enforced full air-raid precautions. Cables from Tokyo said the Home Fleet was being deployed, was "ready for any eventuality...
...While Tokyo merchants were moaning over the potential loss of millions of yen, Belgium's Count Henri de Baillet-Latour, president of the International Olympic Committee, announced that the 1940 Olympics would be awarded to Helsingfors, the Finnish city whose bid had been outvoted (36 to 27) at the committee meeting in 1936. Peace-loving Finland, a land of Grade A athletes, including Runners Paavo Nurmi, Hannes Kolehmainen, Gunnar Hoeckert, has never been host to the Olympics, was last week planning a modest program in keeping with the ideals of international amity...