July 29.
Following up the documents found in the Soviet Consulate at Harbin on May 27, the Kuomintang Publicity Department has issued a review of the facts caled and of China's case generally against Russia. Degrins with the Communist cowp at Canton in December 192%, after which China adopted a tolerant attitude, hoping that] Russia would see the error of her ways, This hope proved futile, Soviet consulates and other organizations continued to be used for the promotion of] plots and it is emphasized that "the culprits arrested (on May 2T in Harbin) were identified to be either important staff members of the Chinese Eastern prompt denial of the Kuo Min report that her Ambassador in Berlin had been getting _into touch with the Chinese Minister in that city.
The outstanding fact of the situation is this uncompromising, silence of Russia's and it must be faced, by China and by everybody who has an interest in finding a peaceful solution for this unhappy deadlock. If Nanking has some private information which cannot at present be Published of Russia's intentions, Wwe shall be only too delighted. But this possibility hardly. fits! in with the actual facts, Moreover Russia has already lost face by the seizure of the railway, and will Rose much more if she now tamely accepts the situation after her ultimatum. She also has it in her power to do great injury to China by the mere continued closure of the frontier, Railway, o managers and men vers of the Soviet Railway Committee, the Soviet Trade Commission, the Soviet. Mercantile since a large trade is done between north Manchuria and Vladivostok all of which is at standstill now. As we have said Fleet; and the Soviet Naptha Syndicate, the Far Eastern State Trading Organization."—Matters had reached a point when the occupation of the Chinese Eastern Railway was forced upon the Chinese Government as an_ inevitable measure of self-we have no wish to be alarmist. but a serious deadlock exists: with no visible sign of solution' and it seems as if some other, way out than any yet sought will have to be tried before long. defence:
"The Soviet Government," the! statement says, YRS used the Chinese Enstern/ Railway instrument to further Communist propaganda is Chinese territory: it made use of the Railway's revenue and the Railway Trade Unions to assist countor-revolutionary elements in various parts of China, with a view to the destruction of China's national unification and overthrow of the Central Government. All these are matters of fact and political action.
The statement protests China's peaceful intentions, adding, however, that "the Chinese Government will adopt proper measures for the purpose of self-defence in case the Soviet Government should. start hostilities againat, China, and the responsibility therefor shall rest with the Soviet Government." There is a difference here from the Harbin message to-day, which says that China will not fight even if Russia attacks Now we have no wish to appear alert and certainly' could never be accused of being "pro-Bolshevik." But in. the
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