SIBERIAN INCIDENT
Expulsion Of Chinese
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter— Copyright) MOSCOW, Sept. 10. Russia has expelled a group of Chinese citizens for attempting to smuggle banned literature into the country aboard the PekingMoscow train. A protest Note accused the Chinese of “hooligan-like actions” and of harassing Soviet border authorities. The Note said that at a Siberian frontier station on the border with Outer Mongolia the Chinese who arrived on the train tried to prevent Russian border and customs authorities from performing their tasks.
When the banned literature was taken from them they “began to carry out excesses” at the frontier station and delayed the train. The conductor and Chinese train crew also took part. The Chinese could have been punished under Soviet laws, but Russia had refrained from doing this because of its “constant desire to avoid aggravation of relations between the two countries,” the Note said. The Soviet step is the second of its kind since June when five Chinese, including three Embassy officials, were expelled for distributing a Chinese letter on the ideological dispute.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30233, 11 September 1963, Page 8
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