Further details of the meeting of local Russians are given in "Shanghai Life," at the office of which newspaper the—meeting was. held. Mr. Novitsky—presided, Mr, Pogursky waa stere-ary of the meeting, and the speak-included Messrs. Semechko, Bogolubof, Gourman, Tarassov, Zurkovsky, Zexhim, and Popof. The tone of the meeting is described as "democratic." Mr. Malinoysky was unsupported in his suggestion that Russians in Shanghai should for the time being seek the protection of the Consular Body, With one dissentient, and four non-voters, the following resolution was carried "Russian citizens in China have been placed in an exceedingly uncertain position by the Chinese Government having ceased diplomatic relations the former Russian Minister in Peking and the Russian Consuls in China. We, citizens in the Russian colony in Shanghai, members of various political parties and having various political creeds, consider the act of the Chinese Government is logical sequence to the condition which was created by the fall of the Kerensky Government, when the diplomatic representatives abroad and in China refused to recognize the Central Russian Government, and were not themselves recognized by the Government in their eapacity as representatives of Russia. It is intolerable to us that our interests should be placed under Chinese protection. still more so that they should be placed in the hands of any of the other Powers in particular or the Consular Body in general pending revision of former treaties by the Soviet Government and China. We emphatically deny the right of any group of Russians in China to dictate to the Russian Central Government in the matter of the appointment of representatives, and cannot acknowledge that the Chinese Government has any similar right in the appointment of counsellors. This right belongs solely to the only central government in Russia. which at the present time is the Soviet Government. That Government is the centre towards which the various administra ations tend. Until.such time as representatives of Soviet Russi shall be officially appointed to China, we consider our only course is to approach the Mission of the Far Eastern Republic (? Representatives of the Verkhne-Udinsk Government) and of the Vladivostok Provisional Government. now in Peking, with the request that they will communicate to their governments with a view to the appointment of a Consul at Shanghai."
A Committee was appointed with the object of securing as many signatures as possible in support of this document.
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