Soviet Resentful

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 838, 5 December 1929, Page 9

Soviet Resentful

NOTE FROM UNITED STATES

Dispute About Manchuria

POSITION BECOMES COMPLICATED

United I*. A.—By Telegraph—Copyright MOSCOW, Wednesday. r TiiE Soviet Government's reply to the United States Note I on Manchuria points out that the United States has appealed to the Soviet when Russia was directly negotiating with Mukden. Such action was not a justifiable pressure on these negotiations, and so could not be regarded as a friendly act.

The Russo-Chinese dispute must be settled by direct negotiation, with which interference is not permissible. The Soviet is amazed that the United States, which by its own desire lias had no official relations with Russia, should offer advice and counsel. Tlie reply says (he Soviet, unlike other Powers, never resorted to military action for defence, but has pursued a policy of peace from the first day of its existence, which it intends to continue, independently of the Paris Pact.

The Nanking Government during recent years has carried on a provocative policy, culminating in the seizure of the Eastern Railway. The Soviet believes that similar action toward the United States, Britain or France, would be considered a sufficient cause for putting into operation their reservations made when signing the Pact renouncing war. The Soviet Government then declared that it did not recognise those reservations, and did not intend to use them.

State’s Note regarding Russian-Chinese relations, the answers from the other Kellogg Pact signatories to Mr. Stiinson’a request that they co-operate have rather complicated than clarified the situation. A summary of the latest responses is as follows: Mexico has agreed to an address to Nanking and Moscow, along lines similar to the. American communication. Holland undertook to communicate with China, but not with the Soviet, with which it has no diplomatic relations. Cuba promised to co-operate. It is now considered that Mr. Stimson is likely to reply to Moscow later. Taking notice of the Russian Memorandum to the United States, as reported in the Press. Secretary Stinison said the Message from the American Government was sent to China and Russia “not, from unfriendly motives, but because this Government regards the pact of Paris as a covenant which has profoundly modified the attitude of the world toward peace.”

SURPRISE IN-AMERICA

SOVIET ATTITUDE TOWARD NOTE

POWERS AT VARIANCE Rccd. 0 a.m. WASHINGTON, Wed. With considerable surprise expressed by the State Department at Moscow's reply to the Secretary of

NO REPLY TO BRITAIN

British Official Wireless Reed. 10. 47 a.m. RUGBY, Wed. It. was stated in the House of Commons today that no reply had up to the present been received from either the Soviet or the Chinese Government to the British memorandum calling their attention to the terms of the Pact of Paris, and its application to the situation in Manchuria.