Washington, Oct. 2, The State Department has made informal inquiries of the Peking Government with regard to reports that China has accepted certain concessions, recently made by the Russian Bolsheviks, It is understood that this action is a sequel to the Chinese mandate of September 23.
Washington, Oct. 3.
The United States Government has opened "information negotiation" with certain unnamed Powers which are contemplating concerted action in opposition to China's acceptance of Bolshevik proposals to renounce the foreign concessions in China.
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Evidence of Japanese desire for the complete domination of the Chinese Eastern Railway has been reported to the Chinese Government, in a recent memorandum of the international commission of inquiry which was sent to Manchuria and Siberia, This commission, which comprised American, French and British representatives, declared that evidence had been collected regarding bandit raids in the vicinity of the railway, which spans the Chinese Province of Manchuria, from which it was plain that certain bands were armed with Japanese guns, and that foreign influence was ex-excised in favour of the bandits. was evident, said the memo-random, that the purpose was to destroy Chinese authority. The report further declared that the Japanese neglected no occasion to intervene, and keep watch over the traffic carried over the railway, and that the Japanese have been installing themselves on ground and in buildings belonging to the company.
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