BORDER BRAWLS
TO COMMISSION
Russia   and   Japan  Will  Talk
Over   Manchukuan   Line
Troubles.
MOSCOW. Feb. 15 (Saturday). (AP)
—The soviet and Japanese governments have agreed in principle to the
appointment of a mixed commission
to investigate clashes on the soviet-
Manchukuan border, an official communique
said early today.
The offer of the Japanese government to enter into such an arrangement was communicated to the foreign office by Japanese Ambassador
Tamekichi Ota. G. S. Stomoniakoff,
Russian vice commissar for foreign
affairs, pointed out that the soviet
government frequently has made
similar proposals in the past.
The soviet government yesterday
ordered its consulate at Mukden, Man-
chukuo, closed, but an official soviet
spokesman declined to connect
order with recent clashes between
Japanese-Manchukuan and outer
Mongolian troops on the outer Mongolian border.
Official circles viewed the repeated encounters as creating a "serious 
although  not  alarming  situation."
Stomoniakoff suggested today the
addition of neutral members to the
proposed mixed commission which, 
according to Ota's outline, would be
made up of representatives of Japan,
the soviet union and Manchukuo.
The Japanese ambassador said he
would  wire  the suggestion to Tokyo.