'The smoke from chimneys, could but speak, would have told volumes, ana secret agents, station ed outside, bemoaned their inability to grasp from the air the content of Soviet secrecy, which was being' fed to the furness in the basement.
Rumour had it yesterday that Soviet officers had rented a largo house in the northern district, where it was understood that the underlings of the staff would take up their semi-official quarters.'
Another story had it that the Consulate, bag and baggage, would remove to the French Concession. MIN.
Naggiar, French Consul-General, has empowered us to state that} there is no foundation for this Oficial observers, in spite of! these reports, are of the opinion [that the Soviet Consular employees.
avail themselves of their! passport privileges, and will leave! for Vladivostok before the required day. Tk was reported yesterday! that a Sovtorgfot vessel, which had bean booked to leave for Siberian ports yesterday, had postponed sailing, acting under orders of Comrade Koslovsky, it being understood that it will provide transport for the undesired staff.
The status of the Dalbank is unique. As an unofficial repository lof the Soviet Government, it has come under the Nationalist ban, Yesterday not a few foreign depas tors claimed their "money and, having received it, looked contentedly at the anomalous situation. What the inter-bank relations are has not been ascertained, In speaking of Dr. Wu's note, the Shanghai "Zarya" in its issue yesterday, pointed out that it was now necessary for the North and South to forget their differences, and unite determinedly on a complete expulsion of Russian influence, otherwise, "the Note will simply other piece of paper' which will prove that the Nationalists are] given to have honourable inter tions' without the ability to enforce their demands."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.