Nanking, Aug. 27.
The Foreign Office received a able to-day from General Chiang sTso-ping, Chinese Minister to Germany, announcing that he had sent a Note to the Soviet Government] demanding an explanation of the hostile sections on the part of the Soviet troops on the Manchurian] border.
Ta its reply to General Chiat 'Tso-ping's Note, Moscow states that the action of the Soviet troops was taken in self-defence, but that it will' be willing to. restrict the activity of its forces on the condition that China will disarm, all White Russian troops in Chinese territory and stop them from invade ing Soviet territory.
In its reply the Soviet Government also states that it will hold the National Government responsible for any outbreak of war i China refuses to- consider its de-
'The reply is a very long' tone and it is being forwarded to Nanking from Berlin by mai General Chiang Tso-ping considered the Soviet reply as unsatisfactory and he sent another protest to Moscow on August 25.—Reuter.
Another Interpretation mncction with th felting. version My, of eourae, Russie, has. tei the ltiatuon of Tuly Nanking, Aug. 27.
Tt was learne at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that General Chiang! Tsoxping, Chinese Minister Berlin, in a recent t for Foreign Affairs of the Moscow Government, in a communication to the Soviet Ambassador in Berlin, says that if the National Government will be] agreeable to the appointment of naw Soviet manager for the Chinese Eastern Railway, the Soviet authorities will be willing to enter into formal negotiations with the National Government, Tk may be recalled in this connec. tion that the original Soviet demand] was that the Soviet Manager who was ousted by the Manchurian authorities should first be reinstated] before formal negotiations could be entered into.—Ta Chung.
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