MANCHURIAN DISPUTE.

Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 25 July 1929, Page 5

MANCHURIAN DISPUTE.

MEDIATION BY THIRD PARTIES

’NOT ACCEPTABLE TO EITHER SIDE.

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SHANGHAI, July 24

Following the reported arrest of 1000 Chines© at Vladivostock, 300 Soviet employees of the Eastern Railway at Harbin and 40 at Pogranidhniaya. have been arrested on a. charge of agitation against the Chinese authorities. Neither China, nor Russia is willing to accept mediation by third parties. China is now seeking to approa'oh Moscow unofficially to investigate the possibility of opening direct, negotiation! China'. does not etoiiteiirpla,te despatching a second Note. Chinese tea merchants, alarmed at the Russian stoppage of the purchase of Chinese tea of the annual value of £1,500,000, are bringing .pressure to bear on Nanking to effect an early settlement. WILLING TO NEGOTIATE. DIRECT WITH CHINESE NATIONALISTS. SOVIET’S REPLY TO GERMANY.

Received 11.5 a.m. to-day. SHANGHAI, July 24. It is reliably reported _ that the Chinese Minister at Berlin has "been notified by the Soviet Ambassador that the Soviet Government, whilst not welcoming an effort hv the signatory Powers to the Kellogg pact for mediation, nevertheless is ready to enter into direct negotiations with the Nationalists for an amicable settlement of tho situation. In the meantime the strained atmosphere at Manchuli is diminishing.