In accordance with Article 4 of the order of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs withdrawing the Nationalist Government's recognition of Soviet Russia and suspending the functioning of all Soviet commercial agencies, all Soviet subjects are hereby ordered to pre-gent and register themselves at this office beginning from to-day, December 16 till December 23.
Those Soviet subjects who intend to return to their country ere also hereby ordered: to apply for Passports within the above-stated period so as to be sure of a safe departure from China. All violations of this order shall fined according to law.
Moreover, all "self-declared "White" Russians who have not! yet registered themselves as such at this office, are ordered to do 30 at the same time. Failure on their part will automatically USSR. Consulate-General in Shanghai, The "Nationalist Gov. ernment" must be acquainted with the fact that all the Consulates of the U.SS.R. exist on Chinese territory in "consequence of the treaty concluded between China and USS.R, and signed in Peking in 1024' and that all the appointments of the Consuls for Shanghai as well as in any other place in China were made with the knowledge and consent of the Peking Government. The Shanghai authorities as well as all others local Chinese authorities have only taken notice of these appointments. In consideration of these facts the statement in the Note of the "Nationalist Govern ment" concerning the cancellation of the recognition of the Consuls the different provinces can only mean that the generals who have seized the power in Nanking act~ ing under the pressure of the imperialists have thought it advisable to have in the territory under their domination especially the Consuls of such Powers as are maintaining the unequal tre with the Chinese.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.