The Archive · 1927

Alleged Bad Treatment Denied

Peking, May 6.

Official British circles do not confirm the report that copies of telegrams relative to the Hankow Agreement were found among: the! papers seized in the raid on the Soviet Embassy compound. It declared that such British official] documents as were discovered were mostly of a purely routine nature, The police have published letters found in the Embassy raid from Feng Vu-hsiang to various agents regarding exchange of secret information. A letter dated Janvary yf 6, 1927, stated that as soon as the wireless station at Paotouchen was removed to Ninghsia all inform: to and from Moscow would be transmitted by wireless through the Soviet Embassy.

Soviet consular officials state that the Russian prisoners are on hunger. strike owing to bad treatment, but the police declare that the prisoners are being properly treated and assert they have no knowledge of any such strike, The Ankuochun officially state that it has been decided to try all the Russian prisoners by an' ordinary court and not a military court. The matter will be now referred to the mistry of Justice and the trials!

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