Karakhan's Claim to a Protocol Power Despite Annulment of all Previous Treaties Peking, Aug. 3.
In view'of the surprise generally' felt when M. Kavakhan put forward to the Protocol Ministers the view that Soviet Russia is a Protocol Power and that, therefore, assurances that the Soviet Embassy.
bide by the regulations of lomatie Quarter should not red from him, the text of the article in the Sino-Russian Agreement dealing with the ean-collation of Tsarist treaties be worth quoting. It says: the Governments of the contracting parties agree to annul at the conference as provided in. the preceding article all conventions, treaties, agreements, protocols, eon-tracts, etcetera, concluded between the Government of China and the; Tsarist Government and to replace This seems to make it quite plain that cancellation of the Tsarist treaties, etcetera, is to take place at the forthcoming' Sino-Russian conference. But the question arises hether or not Russian extrateroriulity: has also been resumed by the Soviet Government as heir to the Tsarist Government, as well as other Russian rights not specifical-dealt by the declarations accompanying the—Sino-Russian Agreement.
Ax regards the Protocol of 1901, however, it would be interesting: to exe mut are in this respect, know what the views of the Chine
particularly ax the Protocol Minis:
ure neeredited to China and China ix a prineipat in the Sino-'Agreement,—Reuter's Britain Making No Change in Diplomatic Representation for the Time Being London, Aug. 4.
In the House of Commons to-
Mr. MueDonald was ques-oned with regard to the possibility of promoting the British Legation and as Japan had promised to do: next year.
The Premier said that he did not k it desirable to make any except as a result of xreement between the signatories of the Washington Convention. Moreover, he continued, any such agreement should be withheld Toast until China had taken steps to establish an effective Central
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