Nanking, Aug. 14.
The Foreign Office officially states: today that no report has been received here regarding the egret tient alleged to have been concluded yesterday in Moscow between dir. Moh" Teh-hwei,—Director-General of the Chinese Eastern Railway and China's Plenipotentiary Delegate to the Sino-Soviet Conference, and the Soviet Government, that consulates in both countries shall be re-opened prior to the formal apering of the Sino-Soviet Conference.
The alleged agreement is con sidered highly improbable in official circles here. It is stated to be very unlikely that Mr. Mgh mould have entered into sich an agreement with the Soviet authorities without first communicating with the Foreign Office and obtaining the approval, of the ment.
Furthermore, the Soviet Government, it is believed, would not have Presented such a demand prior to the formal oyening of the conference, This matter is. of little importance to Russia, as Soviet consulates at' Mukden and Harbin, which are the only consulates in China of considerable importance to the Soviet Government at the present moment, Were re-opened after the signing of the Harbaravosk Protocol.
Moreover, four of the Chinese consulates in Siberia have also been re-opened since the signing of the Harbaravosk Protocol, and five of the Chinese consulates' onthe Soviet-Sinkiang border were never ideawn during the Sino-Russiart The re-opened Chinese com solates in Siberia included the Chi-rece consulates-general at Blagovestechensk, Khabarovsk and Viedivostok and a consulate. at Chita. The consulates on the Soviet-Sinkiang border include the consulate-general at Semipalatinsk fand consulates at Alamatw, Andijan, Deaisangsk and Tashkent.
Soviet consulates in China, which were withdrawn and have not been ye-opened, are those at Tientsin, Canton, Shanghai and Hankow
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