WAR UNWELCOME.

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WAR UNWELCOME.

SINO-RUSSIAN RIFT.

Parties State Willingness To

Negotiate.

SOVIET OBJECTS TO LEAGUE

(United Service.) (Received 10 a.m.) SHANGHAI, July 22. Nanking is instructing Chinese Ministers abroad to notify the signatories of the Kellogg Pact that China does not intend a conflict with Russia and is prepared to negotiate with a view to an amicable settlement. She is also willing to submit the question to the League of Nations as well as to the Kellogg Pact signatories. A message from Moscow states that Soviet circfes welcome the offer of German mediation, which is the only acceptable channel. Russia declines the League's mediation because the majority of °the members of the League are imbued with the anti-Soviet spirit. A Washington message states that M. Claudel, French Ambassador to the United States, presented Mr. H. L. Stinison, Secretary of State, with Moscow s assurance that Russia recognises the power of the Kellogg Pact and desires to force no action with China. A message from Washington says the British Ambassador. Sir Esme Howard, Yesterday informed the Secretary of State, Mr. H. L. Stimson, that the British Government would be happy _to associate itself with his move to bring about a peaceful solution of the controversy between Russia and China. The British, French and Japanese Ambassadors, representing three of the four Powers who wire parties to the pan-Pacific treaty of 1921 (which binds them to confer when the peace is threatened in the East), were consulted on Thursday by Mr. Stimson in connection with his action in calling the attention of the Soviet and China to their obligations under the Kellogg Pact.