CHINESE ORDERED TO LEAVE RUSSIA

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 19 July 1929, Page 5

CHINESE ORDERED TO LEAVE RUSSIA

ACTIVE PREPARATIONS FOR HOSTILITIES IN MANCHURIA

(United Prows Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Australian I'ress AHHociation.—United Service) LONDON', 18th July. The Moscow Soviet in reply to the Chinese A'ote says: All means of reaching an amicable settlement have been exhausted, compels the following measures, placing the entire responsibility of the consequences on China. ' Firstly, all Soviet diplomatic, consular, and commercial representatives will be recalled from China. ' Secondly, all Soviet officials j will be recalled from the Chinese eastern railway. I Thirdly, railway communication between the Soviet Union and China will be suspended. j Fourthly, diplomatic and consular ( representatives of China will be ordered immediately to leave Soviet Russia. j The Soviet declares that it reserves ' all rights arising from the Pekiri and Mukden agreement of 1924, and describes the, Chinese Government's Note as unsatisfactory in its contents and hypocritical in tone. The Soviet Note complains that China practically rejected the Soviet's three absolutely necessary and perfectly moderate* proposals. Instead of restoring the Pekin-Mukden agreements the Chinese Government sanctions their one-sided abrogation, thereby destroying the possibility of normal relations and instead of reversing the jmlawful actions of tho head of the railway the Note sanctions them and also unlawful repressions against Soviet citizens and institutions and hypocritically attempts to justify these. The Chinese Note's reference to propaganda as an excuse for tho unlawful action of the Chinese authorities is false and hypocritical. The Soviet Note concludes by pointing out that tho real object of the Chinese action is revealed in a press statement by President Chiang, who plainly declared that "there is nothing unusual in our measures, which are designed to take the Chinese eastern railway into our own hands."