Fear that Russian Prisoners Will be Summarily: Garrotted Without Formality of a Trial: Counsel Unable to Appear: Attempt to Enlist Foreign Sympathy Frou Ovr Owx Peking, May 6.
Much disquiet has been caused among the remaining officials of the Soviet Embassy by the summary garrotting of the Chinese captured in last month's raid.
It is feared that the Russians will chare the same fate without trial or ceremony.
The Soviet government has handed a strongly worded protest to the Chinese Charge d'Affaires in Moscow in which "dire con-Sequences" are threatened if the captives are so disposed of.
This all that is known of the Note for the Soviet Consul has not received a copy and the Waichiaopa will not release it.
The Soviet spokesmen allege that they are prevented from seeing either the captives from "the! Embassy, or Mrs. Borodin and her fellow prisoners from the Pamint Lenin Dr. C. J. Fox, of Tientsin, has been retained as counsel for the prisoners, but he, too, is unable to vee them and cannot' even fle his application to appear in thely defence, Trial by Military From the Chinese side it is gathered that all the prisoners will be given a trial, but in a military court and not in a civilian court.
Officials yesterday told me it is not usual for a civilian Inwyer to appel Before such tribunals. They refute sian allegation that the] civeles for the hunger strike which Mrs, Borodin and the other Pamiat Lenina rs joined us soon as they arrived in Peking.
The only hope of gaining favourable consideration of. the Soviet tense is considered to be the imminout return of Yang Yusting to Poking. When he is away Chang, Ghung-chang's influence comes 'o the surface: and' this la what. the! Marshal Ghang has already made known his} that the Russian prisoner should be treated the same way the Chinese,
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