Peking, April 23.
The local Chinese press reports that a trade agreement between China and Chita will be signed today, This, however, is flatly denied by representatives of the Far Eastern Republic, who state that a special agent, who was sent to Chita with Yourin's draft of an agreement, for ratification, will return to Peking, to-day, with the approved document, which will be the basis of negotiations and hence the rumour.
The agreement covers not only trade relations, but will also revise treaty rights, these, however, only applying to citizens of the Far Eastern Republic and not to Russians who do not recognize the authority of the Chita Government and whose status, therefore, remains uncharized. The agreement is not recognized by the Soviet, though the latter has an agent now on his way to Peking, for the purpose of carrying on separate negotiations.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.