Declaring that she Soviet had been increasingly aggressive since August 16, the Chinese Minister, in an interview with the Chief of the Asiatic Bureau to-day, emphasized that Chinese troops had no intention of retaliating, though they were prepared to act if the Soviet attempted to invade Chinese territory.
Referring to the Soviet allegation that China had broken her promise to restore the Soviet officials of the Chinese Eastern Railway. to their sts, the Chinese Minister asserted that the Chinese Government had ever committed themselves to any such pledge.
Late last night an engineer was seriously, and two others. slightly, {injured when the locomotive of train from Harbin was blown near Tapinlin.
'The explosion, which is said to have been due to a bomb on the railway track, as a fosse was found' near by, is attributed to a Soviet malcontent—Reuter.
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