Nanking, Jan. 16.
In'a. telegram to the Ministry of Foreign - Affairs, General Chang, [Hsueh-liang states that he has instructed Mr, Mo Teh-hui, Director-nking's Attitude Threatens Break: Soviet Attempt {o Negotiate with Mukden Alone General of the C.E.R, who will be China's delegate at the formal Sipo-Soviet conference at Moscow, to proceed immediately to the capital {to receive the Government's full instructions relative to the impending negotiations.
According to a spokesman of the Ministry, the Government's instructions to Mr. Mo will cover such questions as the purchase of the Russian interest in the CER. navigation along the Sungari River, the natural boundary between northern Manchuria and Siberi Sino-Soviet trade relations, com. pensation for the losses suffered by Chinese and other matters relative to the re-opening of the Chinese and Soviet Embassies and Consulates. The Foreign Ministry will also take up with the Manchurian official the Jquestion of the Chinese delegate to the Harbarovsk Conference exceed-his instructions in discassi questions. beyond his competence. Kuo Min, Text of the Agreement Nanking, Jan. 17.
The "Central Daily News" to-day published a telegram: from Harbin stating that Mr. Tsai Yun-sheng, who represented China at the Sino-Soviet Conference at Nikolsk, had given, in an interview, details of the preliminary agreement signed on December 3.
The Agreement is stated to con-{jin 10 articles, these being (1) Conditions on the Chinese Eastern Railway shall be vestered to the position obtaining before the dispute between China and Russia; (2). Chinese prisoners held by Russia and Russian prisoners held' by shall be exchanged; (8) The sovereign rights of both parties shall be respected; (8) Russian business enterprises China and Chinese business enterprises in Russia shall be resumed (6) All orders issued by the Chinese Eastern Railway authorities up to last July shall be examined by the new board of directors; (7) Formal negotiations between shall be initiated {in Moscow on January 25; (8) There shall be no prejudice in the employment of Chinese or Rus sians in the CER, while all White Russians in the of the railway shall be dis places taken by Chinese; (8) The troops of both sides shall be immediately withdrawn; and (10) The Agreement shall become effective on the day of signature. effective on the day of signature The Threatened Break Tokyo, Jan. 18.
Japanese press messages fron Harbin state that the Sino-Soviet negotiations are threatened with a break owing to Nanking's stiffeaing attitude against the Habarovsk protocol.
MIN. Simanovsky, the messages add, has communicated with Mr. Tsai Yun-shang, who signed the preliminary agreement on behalf of China, his willingness to enter into negotiations Mukden dependently of Nanking in case the latter repudiates the protocol and the Soviet's insistence on. Moscow as the venue of the conference.
'A message from Harbin to the Rengo News Agency, published here announces that Mukder parently in defiance of Nanking's instructions, has "carried out the promises made under the Habarovs" Protocol in connection with the settlement of the Chinese Eastern Railway dispute and has restored the library, the hoteorological station, the. administration of the telegraph Ines ete
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