RUSSIA AND AMERICA

Feilding Star, Volume 2, Issue 316, 21 August 1924, Page 5

RUSSIA AND AMERICA

A MEMOBANDUM BETTWNEfI

KABAKHAN'S REPLY

(By filoetrio Cable.—Onnyright). (Aust. and n.Z. Cable Association.) Pekin, Aug. ID.

M. Karakhan, the. Russian delegate, sent back the American memorandum with an accompanying Note. M. Karakhau refuses to accept the memorandum, which, notified M. Karakhau that, the American .Ministers acquiescence in the understanding embodied in the accompanying Note nowise constituted, or implied a recognition on the part of the United States of the regime known as the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics.

M. Karakhau explains that there does not exist in international law and practice any method of restoring diplomatic relations between two Governments by way of returning, to one of them a legation which it held in the capital of a third Power, by the other of thes"? two Governments.