Both Soviet and Manchoukuo representatives in the railway nego-Nations here are waiting for addi-opal instructions from their respective governments to-day. Actual negotiation will continue {to-morrow when the principal topics gf discussion will include the price for the sale of the Soviet share of the CER.
'Count' de Martel, the French Ambassador to Tokyo, called on Mr. M. Shigemitsu, Foreign Vice-Minister, yesterday and expressed his desire to protect the rights of French creditors of the railway. According to the French. Ambassador, French capitalists invest-six million roubles through Russian banks to the C.ER. at the time the line was built and thereafter purchased a huge amorist of CER. bonds. When the sale of the GE.R. to Manchoukuo was Feperted, French creditors erganiscommittee to present their claim. The French proposal was instantlily declined by Mr. Shigemitsu, it was learned, for the reason that "the Soviet Government has been responsible for the CER.
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