The following oficial utatonent by the Ministry of Foreign Afoire on the Chine Bestera tattwoay incident has been transi Stim Kuo Ji Poa."
Nanking, Dee. 29.
1. During the past three or four years, the Soviet Government carried fon extensive propaganda in this country. This activity was rapidly spreading from day to day.
On May 27 this year, the local authority of the Three Eastern Provinces discovered further evidence of this activity in the form of documents containing record of a meeting held in the Harbin Consulate to discuss plans for the overthrow of the Chinese Government and the destruction of the Chinese Eastern Railway.
The relation between China and Russia thus became most awkward, which, no doubt, was entirely owing to the Soviet government's illegal propaganda activity. view of the fact that the territorial contiguity of the two countries gives rise to much trafic Jand commerce, which need to be rejgulated, and in order to prevent the further spreading of Red propaganda, and to regularize the political' and economic relation between the two countries, the [Minister of Foreign Affairs prepared memorandum containing practical measures to enforce adequately the terms of Sino-Russian Treaties (of This memorandum, the Minister of Foreign Affairs submitted personally to the Chairman of the State Council (General Chiang Kai-shek), then in Peking conferring with Generals Chang Hsueh-lisng and Yon Hsi-shan on July 10. Both the Generals Chang and Yen it the proposals in the memorandum should be communicated to the Soviet Government at an opportune moment.
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