Soviet Russia has rlected™ the protest of the Chinese. Government Teainst the conclusion of a pact of mutual assistance between the Soviet Outer. Mongolis.
reply communicated to the Chinese Charge d'AMfares to-day by Int. Maxim Litvinom, Soviet Foreign Commissar, the Chinese, protest is feverlbed as "unfounded 'AL the. same lime, the Soviet Note expresses deep conviction Govecnment of the Chinese T Wil ative at the conclusion that the protocol does not contradict the Sino-Boviet Agreement signed in Peiping fon May' 1,102, or violate Chin sovereignty "ands in the interests of the Brongetian os wells the Chinese "Lam, however, obliged to consider og without ground the explanations ven by the Soviet Government in regard to the signing of the protocol by USSR, with Outer Mongol Particularly, the Soviet-Mukden Agreement, signed at Mulcden in 1924, which is cited in the note under reply, cannot be regarded as a pr cedent for the present Protocol.
Mukilen Agreement no Precedent "The contention In the Soviet note that the signing of the Mukden-Soviet ageeement did not elicit a protest from the Chinese Govern ment is quite contrary to the facts. Tt hag to be recalled that, before the said agreement was submitted by the local authorities to the Central Government and subsequently approved by the latler as an annex the Sino-Soviet Agreement, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at' Peiping (hen Peking) repeatedly made protests to the then Soviet Ambas-suder to China, on September 25 and October 11, 1024, respectively; and the Chinese diplomatic representative al Moscow also lodged protests with the Soviet Government, "It was not until the said agreement had been approved by the Centeal Government. and all' legal procedure had been complied with that a notifeation was sent to the Soviet Government, in March, 1025, to the effect that the Mukden-Soviet \geeement was to be considered inex to the Sino-Soviet agreement 1024, Thus, the signing of the Mukden-Soviet agreement, which was origin= ally an Mogal act on the part oF the Soviet Government, an act contrary fo international practice, was only rectified subsequently by the. Chinese Government.
Inno sense can it be referred to as a precedent for the Government of U.SS.R. to enter into agreement with Chinese local Tass, asserts that the Chinese Government was forced {0 lodge a protest with the Soviet against the Soviet Mongol pact because Nanking was "powerless to resist the pressure of the Japanese imperialists."
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