Harbin, Jan, 21.
In an announcement made to the Three Eastern Provinces autho ties and the Powers concerned in connection with the _Sino-Sovi agreement made at Harbarovsk, M._ Simanovsky, the Soviet Foreign Commissary for Harbarovsk dis-tits, set out the following points: kinds of heavy fines. The amount of these taxes is fixed by the Soviet Authorities not ad valorem, but age cording to their own free estimate Which is always several times too high, All merchants have been made victims of these random taxes and duties, for example, the Tashengkuel shop alone has suffer. ed a heavy loss of $400,000, "The Soviet authorities," con-inves the petition, "are "torving the people in Outer Mongolia to tasse the Soviet paper money legal tender in all business. tra actions, one paper dollar equalling half an ounce of silver. Chiness dollars are: accepted at a ten. per cent. discount, Those who fail to accept the said standard are subject to a fine of an amount six times as much as the actual sum wolved, Export of silver, cattle, sheep or horses! is strictly forbidden. Up to the present move than 5,000 camels, 50,000 sheep and a huge quantity of wool have been seized by the Soviet authorities. Hence no Chinese merchants can bring money, cattle or sheep back from the Outer Mongolian ten 1, That the Harbarovsk Sino-Soviet Agreement was duly signed by representatives of both parties concerned, neither party is permitted to change any of the contents, nor shall it be allowed to propose the abolition of any clause, merely because a third party is interfering.
2. That the formal Sino-Soviet} parley should be held some time between the middle of January and, the middle of February and neither party concerned is allowed to change the location agreed upon nor shall it be permitted to postpone the meeting; tory.
What the merchants fee) most is the wholesale cancellation of debts owed them by the Mongols, Ths cancellation of debts was ordored by the Soviet authorities and those who dare to repay their debts are linble to receive capital punish-Up to the present the loss ined by the Chinese merchants amounted to no less than
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