The Archive · 1928

Soviet. Government's Protest

Moscow, June 24.

The People's Commissarist of Foreign Affairs has lodged an emphatic protest with Mr. Cheng Yen-chi, the Chinese Change q'Affairs here, against the recent searching of the Soviet Consulate at Tientsin, Mr, Cheng hag promised immediately to notify the Nanking Government of the Soviet protest, THE Nationalist Minister of Interior has issued a proclamation with reference to the emancipation of women, ordering that women, in accordance with the Three People's ples, should be placed on a basis of equality with men. He has ordered that the authorities, should take steps (1) to prevent femaled from being foreed into a life of ill fame; (2) to prevent females from being. fold into slavery; (3) ' to prevent the kidnapping and sale females; and (4) to prevent parent from drowning unwanted daughters, 4

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