OFFER TO SELL RAILWAY
THE SOVIETS REASONS SERVING INTERESTS OF PEACE (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) MOSCOW, May 12. (Received May 12, at 11 p.m.) M. Litvinoff, in a statement explaining the Soviet’s reasons for wishing to sell the Chinese Eastern Railway, says it has become a permanent source of friction with the Japanese and Manchukuo Governments. Therefore n sale would serve the interests of peace. He repudiates the Nanking Government’s right to protest at the sale, pointing out that Nanking forfeited this right 18 months ago when it ceased to be an active partner in the management of the railway, which the Soviet is entitled to sell to anybody who is willing to buy. He adds: “The Soviet has always considered that the railway should belong to the master of the territory over which the line passes, but as it was constructed with the hard-earned money of Russia’s toiling masses the Government could not sacrifice its property rights for nothing.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21952, 13 May 1933, Page 13
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