The Archive · 1929

China Will Not Change

Nanking, Aug. 27, In a statement to press corres. pondents last evening, General Ho ming, declared that the National Government would not alter its policy with regard to the present Sino-Soviet dispute.

"We aim at the attainment of dignified peace with the Soviet Government," said General Ho. "We cannot be cowed into submission by superior force; because our Revolutionary Government, which has the support of the entire Chinese people and which has as its platform the promotion of our national, interests, cannot submit itself to any humiliation. At any rate, the present dispute arose out of the Soviet Government's wilful violation of the Sino-Soviet agri ment of 1924 relative to the manages ment of the Chinese Eastern way, and if Soviet Russia deliberately destroys world peace in the Far ast, the Moscow Government alone will be held responsible. So long as we hold steadfast to our policy,

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