The Archive · 1921

British Mission to Chita

Report on Internal Conditions of Far Eastern Republic Peking, April 26.

The Chinese official observer, in a report dated Manchuli, April 15, that Captain Princep, accomed by Sgt.-Maj. Golding, of the British Military Mission at Vladivostok, passed through Man-chub on the 14th instant en route to Chita where they will remain a short while, afterwards returning to Vladivostok.

The object of. the mission is simply to become acquainted with conditions in that part of the territory of the Far Eastern Republic. Although the mission is_ merely, making a tour of observation, it 18 of considerable significance, seeing. that it means that the British Government is interesting itself in the actual doings of the Chita Government with the view in the future of giving it proper recognition, should it prove stable and strong enough to restore and maintain law and order in the Russian Far East.

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