A noteworthy instruction that has also come from Moscow is that}
Comrade Ivanoff and Comrade Grandt are not to persecute those Russians who have become Chinese citizens. Any such persecution would more likely than not result, in irritation, the Commissary for} Foreign Affairs declares, and it proceeds to state that the Chinese have always shown a determination to stand up for their subject races even though they themselves may treat them with scorn. This is interesting in view of certain dis-pates between Comrade Grandt-and, the authorities of the Three Eastern Provinces over the question "White" Russians in Mukden's army. Chang Tso-lin has always refused to have his Russian soldiers referred to as "Russians," insisting that inasmuch as they had renounced their Russian nationality in favour of Chinese citizenship, he considered the fitting way to describe them would be as Chinese citizens: To]
Comrade Grandt has retorted these men interfere in the politics of Soviet Russia, as a fighting unit against the Soviet Government, the latter would swoop down upon, Manchuria and hoist the Marshall with his own petard by affirming that Chinese citizens have no business to interfere in affairs purely Russian,
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