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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17126, 5 December 1929, Page 5

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U.S. NOTE TO RUSSIA INTERFERENCE DISLIKED (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press A RR >'.) MOSCOW, Deo. 4. The Soviet-reply-to the. United States’‘Note has beefi hhiiclbd To M. Ileibette, the French Ambassador, by M. Litvinoff. ’ m?,.'It points out flinty-'j .Ji^ltad States appealed to the .iSriVult" when the latter was v directly negotiating with Mukden. Such action was not justifiable and pressure during negotiations could not be regarded as a friendly act. The Rtisso-Ohineso dispute must be settled by direct negotiations, wherewith interference is not permissible. The Soviet is amazed that the United States, which, bv its own desire, had had no official relations with Russia, should offer advice and counsel. Mr. Tsaiyushcn, the Harbin Diplomatic. Commissioper, and M. Simonovsk, the Russian Foreign Commissar, have signed a protocol reorganising the administration of the Chinese Eastern hjaihvay in conformity with the Mukden agreements of 1924. AMERICA SURPRISED POSITION COMPLICATED (Received Dec. 5, 11 a.m.) WASHINGTON, Dec. 4. Considerable surprise is expressed by the .State Department at Moscow’s reply to General .Stimson’s Note regarding Russian and Chinese relations. Answers from other Kellogg Pact signatories to General Stimson’s request that they co-operate have complicated rather than clarified the situation. A summary of the latest responses is ns follows: Mexico agreed to address Nanking and Moscow along lines similar to the American communication; Holland undertook to communicate with China, but not the Soviets, with which site lias no diplomatic relations; Cuba promised to co-operate. It is now considered that General Stimson is likely to reply to Moscow later. THE ANSWER TO BRITAIN A POLICY OF PEACE LONDON, Dee. 4. The reply of the Soviet to Britain is that Russia, unlike other powers, never resorted to military action for defence, but pursued a policy of peace from the first day of its existence. The Soviet intends to continue independently of the Paris Pact. The Nanking Government during recent years had’ carried on a provocative policy culminating in the seizure of the Eastern Railway. The Soviet believes similar action towards the United States, Britain, or France would lie considered sufficient cause for their operating. Reservations were 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. NO REPLY TO BRITAIN (British Official Wireless.) Rec. noon. RUGBY, Dec. 4. it was stated in the House of Commons to-day that no reply had up to the present been received trom either the Soviet or the Chinese governments to the British memorandum calling their attention to the terms of the Pact of Paris, anfi its application to the situation in Manchuria.