Moscow, Sept. 14.
In reply to the German note of September 9, in which Germany re-fates the "Soviet Government' allegations that her efforts on behalf of Soviet citizens lacked success, the Soviet Foreign Commissary has presented a verbal zote to the German Ambassador, Dr. Herbert von Dirksen, This explains that the Soviet Note of September 6, to which the German note of the 9th is the reply, is not meant to charge the German consular representatives in China with inactivity as regards Russia's interests, but merely desired to call Germany's attention to the extremely difficult situation under which Soviet citizens were living in China, and to the insufficient results Germany's intervention on their behalf had produced.
'Together with the note, the Soviet Government' handed to the German Ambassador also a list enumerating the outrages and cruelties alleged to have been committed on Soviet citizens by the Chinese. 7 At the same. time, the Foreign Commissary declared' that, already prior to the receipt of the German note, reprisals upon certain categories of Chinese citizens in Russi had been decided upon by the Soviet Government. Finally, the Foreign Commissary requested the German Government to obtain informa as to the cause why thousands of innocent Soviet citizens are being persecuted in China by the Chinese Government—Trans-ocean Kuo M
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