RAILWAY DISPUTE
RUSSIA AND MANCHUKUO. THE JAPANESE ATTITUDE. ' (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) Tokio, April 20. Count Uchida, Minister of Foreign Affairs, replying to M. Karakhan’s Note regarding a settlement of the Chinese Eastern Railway dispute, says it must be settled by direct Manchu-Soviet negotiations. The Soviet must recognize Manchukuo’s equal footing in the management of the railway and abstain from arbitrary actions imperilling peace and order in the Far East. A Foreign Office spokesman stated that Japan did not intend positive action. He suggested the possibility of a scheme ’to offset the Russian debt amounting to upwards of 500,000,000 yen for the purchase price of the Chinese Eastern Railway, otherwise they would not be buying.
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Southland Times, Issue 21997, 22 April 1933, Page 5
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