Waichiaopw's Reply to Japan:
China's Right to Deal With It as She Likes Peking, June 17.
'A Chihling Mandate, dated June 16 and published in this morning's: Official Gazette, ratifies the Sino-Russian Agreement, in accordance with a memorial from Dr. Wellington Koo, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, The Mandate briefly recapitulates the documents therein and orders the affixing of the State seals the counter-signature of the Ws chiaopu and the formal exchange of the Agreement between the Waichiaopu and the Soviet representatives.
The Waichinopu yesterday afternoon replied to the Japanese Note of June 6, saying that before the Sino-Russian Agreement was signed, the Chinese Government had obligations and responsibilities as trustee regarding the Chinese Eastern Railway, as provided by the Washington Treaty. The Sino-Russian Agreement has now been signed, however, formal Sino-Russian relations. have been restored, and the situa. tion has become quite different. The matters which China and Russia. are going to adjust are questions regarding which those countries alone have rights interests. The Note, in conclusion, states that the Chinese Government cannot therefore accept the reservations suggested in the Japanese Note.
'Simultaneously, the Waichiaopu sent almost identical Notes to the French and American Legations, replying to their Notes of May' reminding China of her obligations in connexion with the Chinese Eastern Railway.—Reuter's Pacific Service.
Peking, June 18.
With regard to Reuter's Peking correspondent's report yesterday of the Waichiaopu's reply; panese Note concerning the Chin-Eastern Railway, the Waichiaopu says that the report does. not fully represent the attitude adopted in the Chinese Note. In declining. to consider the reservation, the Chinese reply had reference to. a possibility of interference _with future Sino-Russian negotiations concerning the Railway, while, as regards the legitimate claims which} Japan or any other Power might, have against the Railway, it ex-rossly stated that they had not been prejudiced by the recent Sino-Russian negotiations.
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