The Archive · 1937

Soviet Mass Resolutions

Mass resolutions "indignantly con-dernning the inhuman killing peaceful and defenceless Chinse by the Japanese imperialists" were submitted to all the chief Moscow }Mactories during the week-end, according to a report from the Moscow correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph."

The Soviet press has been instructed to avoid anything which the Japanese might. twist into "Bolshevik intervention in Chinese affairs," and therefore the reports of these resolutions only appeared in short back-page paragraphs without headlines. For the same reason the Soviet press has not commented. editorially. on Japan's activities ever since the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese conilict—Reuter.

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

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