The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 7, 1927, Page 9

a ~ Text of the Note from the Soviet Union to the Peking Government Moscow, 11th April 1927, — ‘th the 9th April the following note signed by Comrade Litvinov dealing with the raid on the Soviet Embassy in Peking was handed to the ambas- sador of the Peking government in Moscow, Tchen: In connection with the raid by armed soldiers of the army of Chang Tso-lin and by the Peking police upon the rooms of the military attache of the Soviet embassy in Peking and upon the living rooms of the employes of the embassy, I have the honor of requesting you to refer the following to the Peking cabinet: 1. Supplementing the note of the ambassador of the Soviet Union in Peking, Tcherny, of the 6th of April of this year, informing the Peking Peking cabinet of the shameful raid upon the rooms of the military atteche and upon the living rooms of the employes of the embassy, and of the fact that many of the employes were arrested, maltreat- ed and their living rooms searched and plundered, it has since been ascertained upon the basis of the information at present in our hands that the living rooms and the bureau of the military attache were searched, plundered and partly destroyed by fire, despite all protests. Similarly, the living rooms of the employes of the embassy were demolished and plundered. A number of empleyes were ar- rested, some of them were beaten and subjected to other violence and to dirision. The names of all the arrested have not yet been ascertained as the armed police and soldiers permit no one to enter the court where the living rooms of the military attache and the employes of the embassy are situ- ated, and the police have up to the present not published any” such list. At the moment, armed soldiers and police are still occupying all the rooms, both of the military attache and of the employes of the embassy. 2. The raid carried out by the Peking authorities is an unheard of violation of the most elementary extra-territorial rights recognized by all nations. The original supposition put forward by the ambas- sador of the Peking government in Moscow, Tchen, that the whole affair was a raid by common robbers and not a search carried out by the state police, has now been proved, by the receipt of the note of the foreign minister in Peking Wei Chiao-tu of the 8th April, to be incorrect. The commissariat for foreign affairs was inclined to accept the sup- position of Tchen as being the most probable, for it could not assume that persons authorized to carry out the will of the Peking cabinet could commit such actions as those set out in the note of the ambassador of the Soviet Union, Tcherny and re- ferred to above i. e, the arrest and maltreatment of employes of the Soviet embassy, the demolition of the bureau of the military attache, the search- ing and plundering of the Russian trade mission and of the greater part of the living rooms of the employes of the embassy situated next to the latter. It can now be stated definitely that the actions termed by Tchen a robber raid, were carried out by soldiers and by the Peking police upon the orders of the Peking government, Such violence is abso- lutely without precedence for two states maintain- ing official relations with each other. 8. If the Peking government supposed that it was carrying out a raid upon a building belonging directly, as stated in the note of the Peking govern- ment, to the complex of the Soviet embassy, then it had not the right to do so without first in- forming the Soviet embassy. The police and the soldiers carrying out the raid did not merely refuse representatives of the embassy the right to enter the territory being searched and plundered, but even refused this right to the ambassador of the Soviet Union, Tcherny. himself. Such an attituae can only be explained by a wish of the Peking cabinet for the violence and plundering of Its agents to take place in the absence of any offictai personages. Only the completely improbable and unbelieveable statement of the Peking government that weapons and documents were found during the course of the searches, proving that an tnsur- rection was being prepared, explains why the raid upon the rooms of the military attache and upon the rooms of the employes of the embassy took place under such extraordinary circumstances, For under such circumstances, when all possibility was removed of even the most elementary control and registration of the confiscated property, there fs no guarantee whatever that the things allegedly “found” and which can be utilized by hostile foreign powers who inspired and sanctioned the raid on the 6th April, were actually found in the rooms raided. 4, If the Peking cabinet had discovered that Chinese citizens were present upon the territory peotonued an ats be Fiennes the ve the latter, then it possibility and duty to inform first of all the embassy of the Soviet Union. However, the Peking government considered it to be more correct in these circum- stances, to direct itself to the diplomatic corps in =e i3 Peking and, in agreement with the Dutch ar-*as- sador, Udendeyk, to violate the extra-territorial rights of the military attache, to use vioience against employes of the embassy of the Soviet Union and_to plunder and demolish their living rooms. The.co-operation between the soldiers and police of the Peking government with the represen- tatives of the diplomatic corps throws light upon the real motives of the q@nheard of violence and the violation of elementary extra-territorial rights and supplies the best evidence concerning” those fn whose interests this violence was committed. < The Soviet government emphatically protests against the above mentioned acts of violence and violation of normal rights and considers it necessary to insist upon the fulfillment of the fol- lowing elementary demands: a) The Chinese military troops and police must be immediately withdrawn from the rooms of the military attache, of the employes of the embassy and of the trade mission, b) All the arrested employes of the Soviet em- bassy and of the economic institutions of the Soviet Union must be immediately released. c) All documents removed from the rooms of the military attache must be immediately returned. d) Personal effects, money, household gooes, books and other objects confiscated or stolen by the police and the military must be returned to their owners immediately. The Soviet government considers it necessary as a sign of protest to recall its Ambassador Tcherny and the whole staff of the embassy from Peking and to leave only a staff necessary to carry out consular functions, until the above demands shall have been fulfilled, The Soviet government limits itself to the above elementary demands which in no way re calculate to humiliate the Peking government. Every tmper- ialist government Whose representatives had been subjected to similar violence would have answered with the sharpest reprisals; The Soviet govern- ment which has sufficient means at its disposal to exercise reprisals, declares however that it has no intention whatever of taking such measures. The Soviet government is well aware that ir- responsible circles amongst the foreign imperialists wish to provoke the Soviet Union into a war. The Soviet government is well aware that the Peking cabinet was the instrument of foreign imperialist circles. However, in its policy, the Soviet govern- ment is guided only by the interests of the toilers of the whole world, including the interests of the masses of the Chinese people and the working class of all countries. In answer to the Peking provocation which was intended to worsen the In- ternational situation and‘to turn the de facto mili- tary operations already begun by certain imper- ialists powers against China, into a new world war, the Soviet government declares that it will per- mit itself to be provoked by no one and will fight for the cause of peace between the nations with all the means at its disposal. The Soviet government does not doubt for one moment that its efforts ror peace will receive the unanimous support of the toilers in all-countries including particularly the peoples of China and of the Soviet Union. 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