Morning Press News 
U.S.S. HOUSTON 
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25 July 1938 
MI SC ELLANEOUS 
Moscow : 
ihe Soviet government took an increasingly independent attitude 
toward Japan today as tension over the latest of a series of 
"incidents" on the Siberian border appeared to be slackening. 
1 lie controlled Moscow press sneered at Japan for threatening war 
over Russia’s fortification of a hMl near the border and t ha n 
backing 'down. The hill is near the junction of the borders of 
Siberia, Korea and Manchukuo. The Japanese protested, claiming 
that the hill was inside the boundary of the* Japanese controlled 
state of Manchukuo. -The Soviet foreign office replied that there 
has been no invasion, that the hill was in Siberia and that the 
troops would not be withdrawn. 
Today, the Moscow newspaper "Izvesta” remarked that the .Japanese 
foreign office had been forced to rescue the Japanese Militarists 
from their own folly. Said the press, "It is time the Japanese 
Militarists ceased playing with fire. They might get burned”. At 
Tokio , the Russian Charge D’ Affaires called at the foreign office 
and remained over two hours. Foreign office spokesmen said the 
border crisis had not been discussed. 
London: 
a Cabinet spokesman announced today that the Spanish Loyalist 
Government has accepted the non-i' tervention committee’s plan 
for the removal of foreign volunteers from the war in Spain. 
Paris : 
The French police announced today that they had smashed an 
important narcotics ring by the arrest -of a Brooklyn Rabbi, 
Isaac Leifer. Leifer and a Hungarian, Herman Gottdener, were 
accused of shipping heroin to New York concealed in Hebrew 
prayer books. Leifer was also accused of shipping narcotics 
from Paris to Jerusalem. 
V i enna : 
Chancellor Hitler's personal deputy in Austria, Rudolf Hess, 
declared todaj^ that Germany is working constantly to preserve 
the peace of the wo rid . Hess spoke at the Memorial services 
for . 13 Austrian JJazis executed for their part in the ill fated 
3£&zi uprising of 1934. Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss was 
assasinated in the uprising. Hitler's representative insisted 
that German;- has already prevented the outbreak of general 
warfare in Europe by suppressing communistic activities in 
Germany and Austria. Hitler's depxity denounced foreign circles 
which he said refused to understand the ideals of New Germany, 
Said Hess, "The more we work towards goals of peace and the A Z'l 
. think of war, the more excuses others find for the 
invention of war threats. It is particularly fortunate for the 
world^that the Fuehrer of Germany refuses to submit to such pro- 
vocations. In protecting the heart of Europe from a Communistic 
conflagration he rescued all of Europe from catastrophe”. 
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