RUSSIA AND CHINA.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1541, 10 September 1912, Page 7

RUSSIA AND CHINA.

RENEWAL OF FRONTIER TREATY. By Telegra,ph-Press Association-Copyright St. Petersburg, September 8. The Russian Minister at Peking has intimated that, owing to China ignoring the proposals to revive the Treaty of St. Petersburg, made in 1811, Russia, in nccordance with Article IS, has decided that the treaty.shall continue for ten years more, but that special concessions in regard to duty-free trade made in respect of a zone of fifty versts on either side of the frontier 6hall be abolished, so far ae the Russian eide is concerned, in 1913. Russia will not object to simultaneous abolition of the same privileges on, the Chinese side.

(Eec. September 9, 11.20 p.m.) St. Petersburg, September 9. The Russo-China Treaty prolonged for a decade, 89 cabled yesterday, is the Treaty of 1881, relating to Hi, Mongolia.

A vory outspoken article in the "Novoc Vromya" on the subject of Mongolian "autonomy" recently supplied an indirect indication of Russia' 3 policy on her Chinese frontier. Tho article depicts in lurid colours tho dangers which threaten Russia's position in tho world from the influx of Chinese immigrants into Mongolia and the conseqnent transformation of the pretent Russo-Mongolian into aßusio-Chineso frontier, and says: "In order to preserve the old relations (with China) tho restoration of tho old status, quo is indispensable... Mongolia must remain a buffer State between China and Russia, and to that end she must restore her autonomy, possess her own troops, and have tho right to enter into independent relations with foreign Powers Russia must now even at the cost of a war put an end to the aggressive movement of the 400,000000 Chinese towards the Russian frontier. She will have to'do it in any case if 6 he docs not insist by diplomatic measures on tho creation of an autonomous Mongolia, and the cessation of Chinese colonisation."