Reval, Aug. 3.
It is reported from Moscow that M. Karakhan, a member of the Soviet Foreign Affairs Commissariat. has left for China on a special mission. He stated that the Pacific would in future become the centre of international polities and, after fortifying Singapore, the British would be the masters of Asia. The mission is said to be connected with the "liquidation of white control of the Chinese Eastern Railway."—Reuter.
London, Aug. 8.
The Soviet News Agency says that M. Karakhan, before leaying Moscow for China, told a correspondent that his main ob-. ject was to regulate Russo-Chinese relations, particularly with regard to the Chinese Eastern' Railway, along which remnants of the White armies were still' troublesome. Another- purpose of his mission was to settle the legal status of Soviet citizens in China; and a third the creation! of conditions for "an economic rapprochement \etween the two_ countries,—Reuter,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.