Reports of the breakdown of the negotiations between China and Rossia also are net regarded seriously, as it is believed that the so-called' negotiations have been confined to informal conversations over the long-distance telephone, the Chinese representatives attempting to arrange, through this channel, for an opening of negotiations, while the Soviet has maintained the attitude that it cannot possibly or, in other words, the Russian officials who were the Chinese Eastern Railway have been reinstated.
The Office appears to anticipate that similar futile at tempts to arrange formal neg continue for some time before a modus vitendi"is finally reached, but that armed clash is extremely un-sky, had a lengthy con-
Minister for Foreign Affairs, yesterday, but the Foreign Office intimates
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