761.93 Manchuria/205: Telegram
The Chargé in the Soviet Union (Kirk) to the Secretary of State
[Received August 24—8:40 a.m.]
267. My 260, August 18, 11 a.m. I understand that in the course of the negotiations between Litvinov and the Japanese Ambassador [Page 484] during the past few days an agreement was reached as to delegates of the Boundary Commission to discuss the frontier in the region of Lake Khasan. The question however of the nature of the documents and other evidence admissible as a basis of the work of the Commission is apparently still pending as Litvinov insists that the accords concluded between Russia and China with the maps annexed thereto should be the sole basis for negotiation whereas the Japanese Ambassador maintains that other material should be considered as well.
There has been no reference to developments in regard to this general subject in the Soviet press since the publication of the communiqué reported in my telegram under reference.