The Archive · 1937

SOVIET PROTEST TO GAIMUSHO

China' Appeals for Help to Stop Air Raids Moscow, Sept. 27.

The Foreign Office has published the text of "a determined protest"

ered yesterday at Tokyo by M. Mikhail Slavutsky, the Soviet Ambassador, against-the Japanese bombardment' of Nanking and the Japanese request for the evacuation of the Soviet Embassy in the Chinese capital.

The Soviet Note reasserted the! determination of the Soviet Ambassador to remain in Nanking, and warned the "Japanese that "they would be held fully responsible for Jany consequences of these illegal ets." jyenese reports from Shanghai, that Chinese aeroplanes masquerade ing as Japanese.were preparing special bombardment of the Soviet Embassy, in the hope of involving the Soviet, were countered by a. warning that Japan would be held responsible for any bombardment Reuter.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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