Pekin; The Ministry of Foi further protested to M. Karakhan, the Soviet Plenipotentiary Peking, regarding the—Soviet-'Mukden Agreement. The previous note merely referred to reports of such agreement, whereas Saturday's note dealt lengthily with the: question as an established fact—Reuter's Pacific Service. tion as warned the substations to pay stricter attention to its original order relative to watching the sources of war news which might be prejudicial to the- cause of the central government. Apparently. the local offices have got lax in this respect. that whatever may be the cause for such an attack there are many fall over China who might seize upon such as-a signal for doing much mischief to us.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.
