January 11 the negotiations for a treaty with the Soviet Government of Russia were broken off. They were reopened between C. T. Wang and Comrade Karakhan -on March 2, very nearly succeeded, were spoiled by the Chinese Ca-bluet's interference and broken off again on March 29. Wellington Koo then took them up. China recognized the Soviet on May 31 and a treaty was signed fon June 7, the full text of which will be found in the "Herald"
June 21. Chang Tso-lin in Manchuria at first refused te recognize the treaty, which gave back the Chinese Eastern Railway to the Bolsheviks, Aft the outbreak of the war, how ever, Chang, to secure his rear, made a separate agreement with the Bolsheviks, who at once caused M. Ostroumoff the able general nmnager, and M. Gon-Jdatti, the Chief of the Pensions: Fund, to be imprisoned. Their crime appears to be that, anticipating Bolshevik robbery, they had distributed the accumulated pension money to the employees {to whom it belonged.
The Protocol Powers of 1901 and 1905 were reluctant to hand over the Russian Legation, with-jour some assurance. that the Soviet would stand by the protocol terms governing Legation Quarter, However, Kurakhan. who had been made first ambas-cader to China on July 11, got the Legation on September 10. Phe Russian Consulate in Shanghai had been passed to the Bolsheviks on July 24.
{t tight be mentioned here that negotiations between Japan and the Soviet were begun once sre on November 10 and resulted in a treaty being signed jon January 20, 1925, Tne Russtin Rerucees A word may be suid of the: White Kussian refugee problem. It is estimated that at the end lof 1924 there were approxima ly 5,000 Russians in Shanghai.
1200 of whom ure
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