Office of the Historian

861.77 Chinese Eastern/397

The Chinese Minister for Foreign Affairs (C. T. Wang) to the German Counselor of Legation in China (Fischer), for the Soviet Commissariat for Foreign Affairs84

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[Translation]

Text of the alternative proposal of the Chinese Minister of Foreign Affairs, relative to the first paragraph of article 3 of the joint declaration.

(Translation from the English)

The Soviet Government shall nominate an Assistant Manager of the Chinese Eastern Railway, who will immediately be appointed by the Board of Administration of the said road, and who, jointly with a Chinese Assistant Manager, will manage the railway pending the negotiations between the two Governments.

  1. Handed to the Soviet Foreign Office by the German Ambassador in the Soviet Union on September 13, 1929. Translation from text printed in the Moscow Izvestia, No. 215, September 18, 1929; copy transmitted to the Department by the Minister in Latvia in his despatch No. 6448, September 29; received October 17, 1929.↩