Peking, Aug. 19.
M. Karakhan this afternoon sent back the American memorandum of August 18 which he refused to accept. M. Karakhan's Note to the Japanese Minister, Mr. Yoshizawa, follows:—
"Monsieur lo Ministre, "I have the honour to inform Your Excalleney tat 1 do wet, conaler it lo to accept the Note of August. 18 which you presented to me at the request of the American Minister. 1 really regret very much that you could not decline this American commission at a time when Japan herself is engaged in negotiations whose very object is to restore normal relations between the Governments of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics and Japan. I hope, however, that if [land when the U.'S. S. K. recognizes the Japanese Government while the latter recognizes the U. S. 8. R. this will mot be interpreted any sense that the U. S. 8. R. wil recognized the bourgeois, capitalistic Jupan or taken to mean ion by Japan of the socialist tie regime of dictatorship by the I Tikewise express the hope that you will have no doubt as to the fact that the negotiations we sure carrying on swith you are being conducted not between two regimes bat between the Governments of the U.S.S.R. This under= standing may make it easier for Your Excellency, it seems to me, to explain to your American colleague the limits of courtesy beyond which his fear may lead him, It should also be added for the information of your American colleague and for that matter for your other colleagues wot have had time yet, like the American Minister, to formulate their anxiety that there does not international law and any method of restoring the diplomatic relations between two Governments by way of returning jfo, oHe of them the Legation of the [latter Government situated in the capital of a third Power by the'
Karakhan's Outburst Followed by An Exordium on American Virtue Peking, Aug, 20, Karakhan's Note yesterday is the subject of widespread comment in Peking to-day, the general tone of which is an expression of hope that his slashing attack is not an example of the neighbour ly relations which he promised to establish when he enters the Legation Quarter The Rosta News Agency yesterday culated an interview with MIN, Karakhan in which the latter, inter alia, says that the idiosynevasy of American diplomacy forees it to act foolishly and incorrectly of the Union of Soctalist Soviet Re-publica, thus differing widely from the Amerieun people who aye one dowed with common sense which favourably distinguishes them even from other nations. M. Karakham ays that no wonder Ame diplomacy in China is sensitive with regard to the U. 8. 8. R, for here America niore strongly. and more acutely than the others Powers felt the blow dealt her policy by the straightforward policy of the U.S. 8. R. Indeed, says M. Karakhan, the hypocrisy and Chrictian bigotry in which Americans enveloped their policy in China have been fully exposed to the eyo of the Chinese People—Reuter's Pacific Service, Japanese Minister's Vain At~ tempt to Make Him Withdraw the Note Poking, Aug. 21, According to the published reports the Rosta interview yesterday was with a member of Of, Kam Khan's stof? and not with M, Kara-Khan himself, ix "understood that Mr. Yoshiuawa t his secre tary to urge M, Karakhun' to withdraw his" note relating to the American communication of August 18. M. Karakhan declined to-do 0 but he subsequently visited My, Yoshizawa and a lengthy and hea' et discussion resulted in un aes rangement by which, it is hoped, Karakhan will' forward mended note which will then be communicated to the other protocol Powers, Meanwhile M. Kavakhan's vote of August 19 remains in My, Yoshizawa's hands.
With the 1 of Sir Ronatd Macleay, the British Minister, to Mr. Yoshizawa will cass;|to be the Senior Protocol Mi in Peking.—Reuter's Pacific
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