CHINESE APPROVAL

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 48, 25 August 1945, Page 7

CHINESE APPROVAL

TREATY WITH RUSSIA

LONDON, August 24. The National Defence Council in Chungking and the central executive commtittee of the Kuomintang approved today the Chinese-Russian Treaty of Friendship which was signed in Moscow on August 14. Though the terms of the treaty are supposed to be secret until it is ratified by the two Governments, the diplomatic correspondent of "The Times" says that some of the terms are becoming known, notably that Chinese sovereignty over Manchuria and Inner Mongolia is established, that the Chinese railways in eastern and southern Manchuria are to operate as a single system under joint Chinese-Russian control for a specified number of years, and that Port Arthur itself is also to be jointly used, while a special regime is prescribed for Dairen. In the Chungking-Yenan dispute the treaty comes down unequivocally on the side of Chungking, which is recognised as the central government, whose authority and administration must be respected. The correspondent adds that the treaty generally appears to establish a far firmer basis for stability in East Asia than seemed possible even a few months ago.