761.9315 Manchuria/159: Telegram
The Chargé in Japan (Dooman) to the Secretary of State
[Received September 8—8:18 a.m.]
464. 1. The Military Attaché was informed today at the War Office that fighting on the Mongolian border ceased 3 days ago, but that it was not known whether there was merely a temporary cessation of operations or an agreement had been reached between the Japanese and Soviet Governments to end the fighting.
2. With regard to press reports of the call on September 3 by the Japanese Ambassador on the Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs, the Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs informed the Polish Ambassador yesterday that Togo had pressed for settlement of only long standing questions relating to Japanese concessionary rights in Siberia and that he had raised no new questions including that relating to border disputes.
Repeated to Shanghai. Shanghai please repeat to Chungking and Peiping.