The Ministry of Communications of Manchoukuo has announced that a rupture has occurred in the water~ way conference at Blagovestehentic, which according to the Manchoukuo authorities is cue to the "lack of sincerity on the part of the Soviet Gelegates." This is the usual explanation given by Manchoukuo whenever they are unable to get the Soviet side to agree to. wher proposals, and apparently the demands! made by the Manchoukuo delegates were of such a nature that they could not be discussed. On the strength of existing treaties Manchoukuo claims freedom of navigation on the Amur, but in" Czarist days China did not have freedom of navigation, but Russian vessels were permitted to navigate the Sungar! to Harbin and Chinese steamers were allowed to navigate the Amur to Habarovsk and to Blagovestchensk, but they carried foods -between the two countries only. There have already been three meetings of the conference, but no result has been arrived at, and now there is a clean rupture.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.