CHINA AND RUSSIA

Hokitika Guardian, 25 July 1929, Page 5

CHINA AND RUSSIA

•j, CHINESE ARRESTS. % SEEKING MEDIATION. #y - /"’ (United Press Association. —By ISlectrii: Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received this day at 8 a.m.) SHANGHAI, July 24. Following the reported arrest of a thousand Chinese at Vladivostock, • three hundred Soviet employees on the eastern railway at Harbin and forty at Pogranichnaya were arrested on a charge of agitation against Chinese authorities. Locally it is learned that neither China or Russia are willing for mediation by third parties. The former is /ftow seeking to approach Moscow unofficially to investigate the possibility of the opening of direct negotiations. China does not contemplate despatching a second note. Chinese tea merchants are alarmed at the Russian stoppage of the purchase of Chinese tea of an annual value of a million and a half sterling and * are bringing pressure to bear on Nanking to effect an early settlement. SOVIET ATTITUDE. (Received this day at 11 a.m.) SHANGHAI, July 24; It ’is reliably' reported that the Chinese Minister in Berlin has been notified by the Soviet Ambassador that the Soviet whilst . riot welcoming the by the signatory powers' to the Kellogg Pact for mediation, nevertheless is ready'to enter into direct negotiations with the Nationalists for an amicable settlement of the situation. Meantime the strained atmosphere at Machuli is diminishing.