The Archive · 1930

THE RUSSO-CHINESE CONFERENCE Negotiations Beyond Mere CER. Settlement

It is reliably stated that Mr. Mo Harbin, Dee. 1. Teh-hui, the Director-General of the Chinese Eastern Railway and China's plenipotentiary delegate to the Sino-Russian Conference for the settle ment of the Chinese Eastern Ri way dispute and other pending pro-Dems between the two countries now sitting in Moscow, is expected to leave Moscow on December, 18 for home, Mr, Mo Teh-hui. will arrive at Mukden on December 26 andi thence will proceed direct to Nanking in order to submit his report to the Nanking Goverment. One ofthe secretaries of the Chinese Delegation Moscow "is leaving there tomorrow for Nanking by way of According to authoritative Chinese quarters, the recall of Mr. Mo Teh-Sai has Geen decided upon as the result of the sphere of negotiations in Moscow having been expanded beyond the mere settlement of the Chinese Eastern Railway dispute and other relevant subjects. The! extention of the scope of discussion at the conference to general] diplomatic and commercial matters has made it expedient for Mr. Mo to return home just now in order to hold fresh consultations with. 1 National Goverhment officials person, In connection with the return of Mr. Mo, it is said in well-informed quarters here that the personnel of the Chinese delegation will probably changed in order to meet the new situation at the conference as the result of the enlargement of the scope of subject matters at the Conference from sectional to general diplomatic problems. The possibility, of the appointment of Dr. Welling-ten Kea, former. Voreign Minister in the Peking Government, to the post of new plenipotentiary delegate to the Sino-Soviet Conference _is spoken of generally in offcial.circles here.—Rengo.

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