RUSSIA AND CHINA

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20892, 5 December 1929, Page 9

RUSSIA AND CHINA

OBLIGATIONS UNDER PACT. MEMORANDUM PROM PRANCE. (British Official Wireless.) (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) ' 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. REPLY TO AMERICAN NOTE. INTERFERENCE RESENTED. MOSCOW, December 4. (Received Dec. 4, at 8 p.m.) The Soviet reply to the United States was handed to M. Harbette, the French Ambassador, by M. Litvinov. It points out that the United States applied to the Soviet when the latter was directly negotiating with Mukden. Such action was not justifiable pressure on these negotiations, hence it could not he regarded as a friendly act. The Russo-Chinese dispute must be settled by direct negotiations; with which interference is not permissible, The Soviet is amazed that the United States, which by its own desire had ■no official relations with Russia, should offer advice and counsel. REPLY TO BRITAIN. “POLICY OF PEACE PURSUED.” LONDON, December 4. (Received Dec. 4. at 9.5 p.m.) The reply of the Soviet states that, unlike other Powers, it has never resorted to military action for defence. It has pursued a policy of peace from the first day of its existence, and intends to continue doing so, independently of the Paris Act. The Nanking Government, during recent years, has carried on a provocative policy, culminating in the seizure of the Eastern railway, and the Soviet believes that similar action towards the United States, Britain, and Fran :e would be considered sufficient cause for their operating on the reservations they made when signing the pact renouncing war. The Soviet then declared that it did not recognise those reservations, and did not intend to use them. CHINESE EASTERN RAILWAY. THE PROTOCOL SIGNED. MOSCOW, December 3. (Received Dec. 4, at 11 p.m.) General Tsai-yu-shen, the Harhtn diplomatic commissioner, and M. Simonovsk, the Russian Foreign Commissar, have signed the protocol for reorganising the administration of the Chinese Eastern Railway in conformity with the Mukden agreement of 1924.