861.77 Chinese Eastern/574: Telegram
The Chargé in China (Perkins) to the Secretary of State
1090. Legation’s 1084, December 4, 5 p.m. Following from Tass Agency, Moscow, December 4th:
“The protocol signed yesterday in Nikolsk-Ussurisk by Messrs. Tsai and Simanovsky, the Mukden and Soviet representatives respectively, runs as follows:
‘On behalf of the Mukden Government, the Diplomatic Commissar, Mr. Tsai Yun-sheng, declares that the chairman of the Board of Directors of the Chinese Eastern Railway, Mr. Lu Jung-huan, has been [is to be?] dismissed from the post of chairman of the board.
On behalf of the Government of the U. S. S. R., the Agent of the Foreign Commissariat [at] Habarovsk, Mr. Simanovsky, declares that when the chairman of the Board of Directors of the Chinese Eastern Railway, Mr. Lu Jung-huan, will [Page 393] be [has been?] dismissed from the post, the Soviet Government, in accordance with declaration of the Acting Commissar of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Litvinov, handed the German Ambassador at Moscow on August 29,70 will be ready to recommend new candidates for the post of manager and assistant manager of the Chinese Eastern Railway, instead of Messrs. Emshanov and Eismont. But in the [this] case, the Soviet Government reserves the right to appoint Messrs. Emshanov and Eismont to other posts on the Chinese Eastern Railway, whereupon Mr. Tsai Yun-sheng, in personal conversation with Mr. Simanovsky, expressed his consent.
The Deputy [Diplomatic] Commissar, Mr. Tsai Yun-sheng, of the Mukden Government declared that the latter, desiring by all means to contribute towards the settlement of the conflict between China and the U. S. S. R. and to remove all causes for further complications, will strictly conform with the Mukden and Peking agreement[s] of 1924, in whole as well as in each part.
The Agent of the Foreign Commissariat [at] Habarovsk, Mr. Simanovsky, on behalf of the Soviet Government, accepted with satisfaction the declaration of Commissar Tsai Yun-sheng that the Mukden Government will fulfill the agreements of 1924 and declared on his part that the Government of the U. S. S. R., which has always stood on the basis of the agreement[s] existing between China and the U. S. S. R., will, of course, strictly fulfill them in whole as well as in each part.
The above declarations in the first and second clauses of this protocol are considered as accepted by both parties.’”