CHINESE GOVERNMENT

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22845, 28 September 1937, Page 9

CHINESE GOVERNMENT

action against japan OBLIGATION UNDER PACT MOSCOW'S NOTE TO TOKIO J- . By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received September 27, K. 43 p.m.) ' ' - '' MOSCOW, Sept. 27 The Soviet has received a Note from China calling on her to take immediate steps to check Japan's "inhuman" bombardments. China states that Russia should act without delay as a signatory of the Briand-Kellogg Pact. : f.\ The Soviet Ambassador, M. Mikhail Slavutsky, has delivered to Tokio Russia's determined protest against the bombardment of Nanking and against the Japanese request for the evacuation of the Soviet Embassy. 1 " The Soviet again asserts that its Ambassador shall remain at Nanking. It allots full responsibility to Japan for any consequences of "these illegal acts." The Note further declares, in regard to Japanese reports that Chinese airmen, masquerading as Japanese, intend to bomb the Soviet Embassy in the hope of involving Russia, that Japan will be held responsible for any bombardment. * ! ;