Sum Paid to Ataman Semenoff in Dispute Tokyo, Oct. 14.
The Foreign Office in Moscow has delivered a formal protest. to the Japanese Ambassador, Mr. Tanaka, in Moscow regarding the payment of a sum amounting to) about Yen 1,400,000 by the Yoko-bhamo Specie Bunk in Yokohama to representatives of Michuel_Podtiagin, former Cuarist military atiaché in Tokyo, and Ataman Semenoft, the White Russian. leader, it was understood at the Russian Embassy here to-day.
The Foreign Office requested the Ambassador to transmit the pro-lest to Tokyo for the consideration of the Japanese Foreign Office.
No other action, it was understood, hus been taken in the ease. The ' Embassy claims the mangy belonged to the government of the USSR, as it was Russim State funds." The sum was do-posited in the bank by Podti an agent of the former White Russian regime in Siberia.
Ataman Semenoff, it was reported, still was. at his residence Yokohama.—United Press, To Relieve White Russians Mukden, Oct. 30.
Ataman here to-d that he pon the task of relieve White Guards Manchuria who were suffering from Soviet cruelties. He stated that he had already approscived the League of Nations for the purpose Gold bullion to the value of a million yen, which, has been drawa out, the Yokohama Specie Bank, and is now deposited in a certain bank in Paris, will be appropriated toward the relief of the White Russians Manchuria since a full understanding has been reached with—-M. Podziagin, the former representative Mukden, Oct. 31.
Interviewed by a Rengo spondent, General Semenoff who rived here yesterday, said: hero is to devise relict measures for the White Russians residing in Man~ churia who have recently been either massacred or expelled Bolshevik troops on the border and who number more than 2,000. As regards the atrocities with which the poor Whites we murdered an appeal has already been submitted to the League of tions, "With reference to press reports: that T have secured from a Japanese, bank a sum of Yen 1,000,000, I want to point out that the money has not yet come into my possession. If it does, 1 intend to use it for the relief of White Russinn refugees and bereaved families, since it is not my own property.'—Rengo.
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