Dr. Wang's Contention in Speech at Memorial Service Nanking, July 23.
Dr, C. T. Wang, speaking at the weekly "memorial' service to Dr. Sun Yat-sen "Riy is necessary to make unmis takebly clear, "that China has of seized the Chinese Eastern Railway. We have no intention to do that and we do not mean to do i, We are already part owner of the Tail Way and should tt bbe oar desire to assume full ownership we will resort to negotiations, " What we have done {sto take temporary control the said railway to prevent it from being used by Soviet agen fas an instrament of Communist propaganda which aims to under. mine our existing social order and our goverment," Tt is a measure purely of self-defence. The rights of the Russians thevefove are still untampered with, "We have mews thet Russia is adopting wartike attitude, Still believe "that. Russia. has intention to resort. to force but if she does—notwithstanding the fact that the Chinese ave traditionally 3 peace-loving people and the further fact that our. Into leader, Dr. Sun, sounded the clarion call of brother: hood and good will—then in order protect oar rights, our dignity and. sovereignty. we will bg con strained to adopt adequate" measures of precaution, The attitude towards war today is far from what it was yesterday. Tt is not simply a thing to be deplored and denounced; it is a thing to be con-denned. Any vation resorting to war aggressively commits a eriminal act against the whole world. This is borne out forcibly by the Kellogg anti-war pact to which doth China and Russia are sigma tories. China will remain steadfast to hor ideals of pence and brother. hood,"—Kuo Min, spanese Action on P.M.R.
Tokyo, July 23.
It is learned from authoritative] sources that the Commander of the the Japanese Garrison in Manchu has instructed the South Manchuria Railway to refuse transport Chine troops and munitions and. also not to permit Chinese troops to pass through the South Manchuria Railway zone unless unarmed and fat the discretion of the local Japanese commander.—Reuter,
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