There has been no intimation from the Red Consulate whether the remaining Soviet officials would leave to-day, It had been under. stood that the str. Sishan would carry the bulk of the local representatives. Rumour had it that the engineers had been asked to give up their berths for passengers' use, Yesterday it was reliably reported that Comrade Koslovsky had completed the purchase of a vessel, now under his charter, which was expected in port within a few days, and that he would not leave until this ship arrived.
Neither has there been any statement whether the period of diplomatic immunity, extended to the Reds, and which was to have expired yesterday, had been prolonged, or whether they were remaining under unofficial sufferance.
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