Peking, Nov. 23.
Aprupos ai the controversy over une publication of a transia-You of Lue dtussiay declarations of ivy and 1lvzU im a local paper recently, Keuter's Agenvy Is in a posiuiun to state the situation as follows the first declaration of 1919 was issued from Moscow on July 25, 1919, but' was not received in Peking until March 26 of the following year, when it was cabled from irxucsk by Mr. Yanson, the Representative for Foreign Attairs of the Council. of Commissaries of the People of Siberia and the Far Kast. Issued in French, the statement was signed by Mr. Karakhan on behalf of the Moscow Government.
The second declaration was dat-September 27, 1920. It was in Russian and was handed to Major-General Chang Shihdin, who was in Moscow at the time as Delegate of the former Bureau of Frontier Defence, and brought back to Peking by him. The Chinese Government formally replied to the two declarations on February 3 and 11, 1921.
The discrepancy noted by Chinese official circles in the translation of the 1920 declaration has since been admitted by the Soviet Mission in Peking, whereas there still seems to be a dispute concerning the first declaration of i919. The following is.a rough translation of the French text as received by the Chinese Government:—
BROTHERLY WORDS, Irkutsk, March 26, 1920, time: 12.
To the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Peking.
-the Chinese people and the Governments of North and South China. At the time when the Soviet troops, after having defeated the army of the counterrevolutionary despot Koltchak, supported fy foreign bayonets and money, entered into Siper™. and marched together with the revolutionary people of Siberia, the Council of the Commissaries of the People addressed to all the people of China the following brotherly words The Russia of the Soviets and her Red armies, after two years of struggle and after making incredible efforts, are marching towards the East beyond the Ural, not for the purpose of oppressing nor with the spirit of tyrannizing or conquest. All the peasants and workmen of Siberia are already aware of this. We are marching to free the people from the. yoke of the military force of foreign money which is crushing the'life of the people of the East. and principally the people of China. We are not only bringing help to our working classes, but also to the Chinese people: and we want once more to remind them of that which we have continually told them, since the great revolution of October, 1917, and which the public press in the pay of the Americans, Europeans and Japanese have perhaps suppressed.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.