Commercial Treaty Denied Peking, Dec. 31.
Interviewed by the Peking correspondent of the Kokusai News Agency yesterday, an official of the Waichiaopu stated that there was no truth in the reports that a Russo-Chinese commercial treaty had been concluded. The official pointed out that Chang Sou-lin had been sent to Russia by Tuan Chi-jui's party and that Chang had nothing to do with.the resumption of commercial relations between China and Russia.
China, the official continued, had recently sanctioned the provisional trade agreement concluded between the Tuchun of Sinkiang and a representative of Russian Turkestan early this year, and it had been suggested that a provisional agreement of a similar character might
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