"In the present circumstances, we! have striven not to jeopardize' our relations with any third state and in view of the elieacy of Soviet Japanese relations, any step that would tend to endanger them has been sedulously avoided."
'The "raid, the spoke alleged, was engineered by "elements who would profit either politically' or financially, from it"
In the former category he placed' 'White Russians, Korean' revolutionaries, and Chinese. All these groups, Tientsin, Aug. 2.
International efforts for' the relict of 40,000 Chinese refugees now concentrated in the former German Concession were under way to-day.
This followed the formation yesterday of the International Refugee Relief Commission under the chairmanship of Mr, W. H. E. Thomas, manager of the local branch of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China. Consuls of various nations stationed in Tientsin are ex oficic members of the commission.
The group will undertake the free distribution of food: and provide medical attention—Domel. be said, would favour Soviet-Japanese In the latter, he included White' Russians and Koreans, who expected fo reap financial gains as a result of the purchase of the documents by the Japanese authorities.
The spokesman admitted that the group which raided the Consulate-[General might have included "Japan—ese fanatics or irresponsible elements." }He pointed out that 3 Smirnoff had requested the Consular Body on [Saturday night to extend protection to the Consulate-General in view of 'a rumour that it would be attacked by a group of Russian Fascists with headquarters. at 105 Rue de Frante.
The French Consul immediately ordered that the headquarters of the Fascists be searched, but this was fruitless.
The British Consul-General thereupon ordered that all persons proceeding from the British Concession the former Russian Concession be searched for arms—Domel.
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