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Show 300 SOVIET TROOPS SENT OVER BORDER TOKYO, - July 26 (U.R) Japanese newspaper and news agency dispatches from Man-ehukuo Man-ehukuo reported serious flashes between Russian and fapanese-Manchukuan forces on the Siberian frontier today lear the scene of last week's dangerous dispute. The newspaper Nichi Nichi, in a special dispatch from Mutan-kiang, Mutan-kiang, Manchukuo, asserted that 300 Russian soldiers crossed the frontier and were thrown back by Manchukuan troops after a five hour fight. Previously the Domei News Agency had reported that 20 Russian infantry and 30 cavalrymen cavalry-men crossed the frontier and were thrown back by frontier guards. Cross Frontier The Domei dispatch said that the Russians crossed the frontier at an unspecified point, and penetrated pene-trated into Manchukuo for a distance dist-ance of 100 yards before they were repulsed. But the Nichi Nichi dispatch gave details of what, if they were correctly reported, was a fight on a bigger scale. The dispatch said that 300 Russians Rus-sians crossed the Ussiri river in four gunboats, seized the town of Yaolintze on the Manchukuan side and burned houses. Manchukuan border guards fired on the Russians and there was severe fighting until the Russians Rus-sians retreated after five hours, it was said. Neither dispatch mentioned casualties. The scene of both of the reported re-ported clashes was in northeastern northeast-ern Manchukuo, in the vicinity of Hunchun. Near Strategic Hill Hunchun is near the hill which was the cause of an angry exchange ex-change between Japan and Russia last week. Russians occupied the hill. Japan, claiming the territory for Manchukuo, demanded that Russians occupying it, evacuate. Russia curtly refused and cited maps as proving that the territory was Manchukuan. The report of a new clash on the frontier came at a moment when it looked as if the hill incident inci-dent not only might be liquidated but might lead to a sober effort to prevent such incidents in future, fut-ure, t |