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M. Chicherin's Note of yesterday, at which the coast-guard officials are very amused. They. point out that similar plates order passers by to take observations in order to compensate their com-
Passes from the charted records. They have been fixed in many. foreign places. The standardized warning against violation which Ingeribed on the plates is only intended for domes Note:—M. Chieh referred to contained a strong. protest to the United States against "lawless acts of American officials," who were alleged to have fixed brass plate in the Tehukotsk Peninsula, bearing an- inscription which warned Soviet citizens not to interfere with American Service.
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