Nanking, July 17.
The following is an English tran lation of the full text of the reply of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the National Government to the to Soviet oppression. The Chinese Government, on the contrary, ha: always been broadminded la its rela tions with Soviet merchants and Soviet commercial organizations in. China; and has rever enterisined any prejudice against Soviet nations, The arrest of certain Russians and 2 raid on extin Ri institutions by the authori.
of the Three Eastern Provinc are entirely necessary for the purpose of preventing anti-revoltionlary propaganda and for maintaining peace and order.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.