Peking, Feb. 10.
As the result of a recent recommendation by the Premier, Chang Shao-tseng, of a special delegate to Moscow, Parliament has adopted a definite attitude towards the Soviet. They insist upon negotiations without recognition.
In spite of the fact that Mr. Joffe's relations.with the Chinese got neither side anything, there is a growing feeling here that some of the outstanding questions between China and Russia must be settled. The Chinese want to know just where the Russians stand upon such matters as the Red occupation of Mongolia, the administration of the Chinese Eastern Railway, the navigation of the Sungari and the Amur rivers and a score of other subjects relating to trade, boundaries and what not. The feeling in the Government seems to be that many of these questions demand settlement in the immediate future.
Recently a certain Mr. Chiang K'ang-hu, once an exchange professor at the University of California, who professes socialism, returned to Peking from Moscow and strongly urged in various quarters that a special delegate be sent to the Red capital. He was called into conference by the Premier and in stating his case, told the Premier. that he thought that all outstanding questions between China and Russia could best be settled in Moscow and that would be decidedly to China's advantage to open negotiations by recognizing the Soviet Government. The Premier is said to have been persuaded by this Mr. Chiang that this was the wisest course and to have been so impressed by the ex-professor's abilities that the appointed him the special delegate to Moscow.
When this appointment came to "be considered by Parliament, however, Mr. Chiang was rudely deal with. Members gi professed have knowledge of. his visit to Moscow stated that he was persona non grata in that city; that he had had to leave and that he had recommended himself as a special delegate so that he could go back under official auspices and recover his "face." Parliament went further and made it plain to the Cabinet that any negotiations which they might be expected to approve would have to be held in Peking, that the question of re cognition of the Soviet would not even be considered until after all outstanding questions had been
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