PORT OF DAIREN

Evening Star, Issue 25993, 7 January 1947, Page 5

PORT OF DAIREN

AMERICA PRESSES FOR REOPENING NOTES TO CHINA AND RUSSIA (Rec, 11.40 a.m.) WASHINGTON, January 6. The , State. Department announced that the United States had asked Russia and China to arrange without further delay the end of Soviet military control of Dairen and to open Dairen to world traffic under Chinese administration. In a Note delivered to Nanking and Moscow on January 3, the United States urgod early implementation of the Sino4tussian agreement of August 14, 1946, which contemplates the reopening of the port. The Note expressed the hope that “ normal conditions may soon be re-established which will permit American citizens to visit and reside in Dairen in pursuit of their legitimate activities." The Note also hoped that an agreement could be reached soon for the resumption of traffic in the. Chinese Changchun railway. It addedlt is believed that prompt implementation of the agreements regarding Dairen and * the railway would constitute a major contribution to the re-establish-ment of normal conditions in the Far East and a revival of generally beneficial commercial, activity."