Peh, Chinese Consul at Irkutsk, is unknown, but Mr. Fan Chi-kuang. the Vice-Consul, has managed to escape safely from Irkutsk. the Japanese militarists have Proposed joint defensive measures against Russia, in virtue of the Military Ca-operation Pact. But Premier Chin Yun-peng has re jected it, on the ground that the said Pact was made for the purpose of defensive operations against an enemy and not against Russia.
A Manchuli telegram states that Socialist Government is being set up at Irkutsk. The Japanese Army has reserved a certain area as a neutral zone. and the Whites have all retreated to Chita under the
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