SOVIET ON HIGH HORSE

Greymouth Evening Star, 6 December 1929, Page 7

SOVIET ON HIGH HORSE

REPLY TO BRITAIN “NO OUTSIDE INTERFERENCE” (Official Wireless.) RUGBY, December 5. A summary of the Soviet reply to the British memorandum declares the •Soviet policy to be peaceful, and the Nanking policy provocative, and states the measures taken by the Reds, are entirely in self defence, and not a breach of the Paris agreement. The reply disputes the right of any group of States to act as guardian of the Pact, and says the conflict can only be ended by direct negotiations, on conditions with which China is acquainted, and Mukden has already accepted, and that no outside interference can be permitted. The Chinese reply to the British Note points. out that China maintained a peaceful attitude and refrained from adopting hostile military actions, except for selfdefence. PROTOCOL SIGNED. MOSCOW, December 3. Tsai-Yushen, the Harbin Diplomatic Commissioner, and Simonovsk, the Russian Foreign Commissar, have signed a protocol reorganising the administration of the Chinese Eastern Railway in conformity with the Mukden agreements. FRENCH MEMORANDUM. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, December 3. The French Government has presented a memorandum in terms similar to those presented by Britain and the United States to the Chinese and Soviet Governments, calling their attention to their obligations under the Kellogg Pact in connection with the situation in Manchuria. ITALY’S ATTITUDE. MOSCOW, December 4. Italy has informed the Soviet of her adherence to the American Note regarding the Kellogg Pact.