893.01 Manchuria/693
The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs at Nanking to the Chinese Legation40
A telegraphic message dated November 27 from Hailar stated that in a formal note to the Soviet Government, General Su Ping-Wen said that with reference to the story fabricated by the Japanese that he and his colleagues had sued for peace and that the Chinese resistance had broken down without an attack, he had the honor to state that it was the determination of his army and all the other volunteer armies in Manchuria not to relax a whit of their resistance until the enemy should be driven out of Chinese territory,—a fact which must have come to the cognizance of the Soviet Government.
The note also stated that the Japanese mission headed by Komaziwara41 on the pretext of negotiating for peace had continued to linger in Soviet territory, and on the pretext of supplying the Japanese captives with provisions had continued to take the liberty of making free use of Soviet aeroplanes, encroaching upon Chinese aerial domain, with the object of espying the Chinese positions and movements. This [Page 380] was tantamount to espionage on the part of the Japanese. It was sincerely to be hoped that the Soviet Government would at the earliest moment order said Japanese agents to leave Soviet territory.