RUSSIA AGREES
WITHDRAWAL FROM MANCHURIA PUPPET GOVERNOR TO BE RELEASED (N.Z. Press Association— Copyright.) (Rec. 12.-5.) CHUNGKING, March 27. The Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs (Lju Ghieh) has accepted Russia’s offer to withdraw troops from Manchuria by August 30. Asked whether the crisis in SinoRussian relations had passed, Liu said: “We have never given up hope. No one can say that the situation is on a very sound basis.” He added that China had not received any Soviet assurance that equipment removed from Manchuria would be paid for. He declined to say whether China had protested against- the removal of the equipment. The Chinese Minister of Information, K. C. Wo, stated that Russia had agreed to release Henry Pu Yi, former Japanese puppet Governor of Manchuria. Asked whether Pu Yi will be tried as a war criminal, Wu laughed and said: “We have plans for him.”
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 66, Issue 142, 28 March 1946, Page 5
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