Moscow, Nov. 21.
MIN, Litvinoff to-day issued a long reply to the Note received from Japan in which Japun declared. ite attitude towards the Chinese East Jem Railway and denied the allegations that se military authori-Hes were manufacturing rumen regarding Soviet assistance for [General Ma Chang-shen, In her Note fact that the Japanese were strict ly neutral during the dispute between Russia and China, In his Litvinof? points out that There was, therefore, he. con= tinues, not the remotes troops, bad accomplished Nimited task they were withdrawn, M. Litvigoff declares that on November 12 the Soviet section of the board of the Chinese Eastern Railway were ordered to continue to adhere to the principle of neutrality-and were told not to transport any "ighting' party "to the Notwithstanding the nearness of the front to the railway the prince ple of neutrality, says M. Litvinof, its on the whole been preserved.
The fact that military operations in Manchuria have developed consi-Jderably beyond the initial zone, however, resulting in the possibility: fof Soviet interests Leing touched could only: be regarded with very serious concern by the Soviet, M, Litvinoff states reserve tion of Soviet interest
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