Russo-Asiatic Bank Liquidator Enters Prior Claim to Shares Mr. Perey Chu, Liquidator of the uso-Asiatic Bank in Chingy tas Sent the following: protest to Bogomsloff, the Soviet Ambassador, regarding the proposed sale of the Chinese Basten Railway. A similar Protest has also been sen Ariyoshi, the Japanese sinister. The Note reads:
"The undersigned, Liquidator of the Russo-Asiatic Bank in China a the honour to request Your Excel-Teney" to lay before the Government Union of the Soviet Soci Republics the following. protest:
"he Russo-Asiatic Bank creditors of the Chinese Eastern She Terahalets tondbllrs and responsible for the entire dains
Say, incurred prior tthe Revelation a March 9, 017, "This provision contains a reeognition by the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics of the position of the Russo-A.siatic Bank as holder of the shares of the Company of the Chinese Eastern Railway, and_an-undertaking to damnify' the Russo-Asiatic Bank such for the dispossession of the Company and the taking over of the Railway by the two Governments which followed the signature of the 19% Agreement, Purpose of Liquidation Office on, September 8, 1896.
"When the Chinese Eastemn Rai way "Company was constituted execution of the said contract an according to statutes which the Im-Donal Russian Government approved on December 18, 1896, the whole "f the capital of the Company, amounting to five million gold roubles, was subscribed by "the -Rusao-Asiatie Bank which thus "became and has singe remained the sole holder and owner of the entire stock and shares "In. the "Agreement on General Principles for the Settlement of the questions between the Republic hina and. the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics signed at Peking on May 31, 1924, the Governments of the we contracting parties agreed on certain Principles to govern the future of the Chinese Eastern Railway, and it was provided in, paragraph (4). of Article 1 of the Agreement that, The Government of the Usion of the Soviet "Socialist epublicy agrees
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