The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-07
Moscow, 18th April 1927.

sador of the Peking government in Moscow, Tchen:
In connection with the raid by armed soldiers of
the army of Chang Tso-in and by the Picking police
upon the Of the military attache of the Soviet
embassy in Picking and upon the living rooms OF
the employees of the embassy, l have the honor
OF requesting you to refer the following to the
Pekng cabinet:
l. Supplementng the note of the ambassador
OF the Soviet Union in Picking, Tcherny, of the
9th of April of this year. informing the Picking
Picking cabinet of the shameful raid upon the rooms
OF the military attAche and upon the living rooms
OF the employees of the embassy and of the fact
that many Of the employees were arrested, matreat-
ed and their living rooms searched and pundered
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, pundered and partly DESTROYED by
fire, despite all protests Similarly, the living rooms
OF the employees of the embassy were demolished
and plundered. number of employees 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 employees of the embassy are stu
ated, and the police have up to the present not
published any such list. At the moment, armed
soldiers and police still occupying all the rooms
both OF the military attache and of the employees
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 Picking government in Moscow Tchen,
that the whole affair was a raid by common
robbers and not search carried out by the state
police, has now been proved, by the receipt of the
note OF the foreign minister in Peking Wei Chao-tu
OF the Sth April, to be incorrect The commssariat
for foreign affairs inclined to accept the sup
position of Tchen as being the most probable for
it could not that persons authorized to carry
out the will of the Picking cabinet could commit
such actions as those set out in the note of the
ambassador of the Soviet Union, Tcherny and re-
terred to above e. the arrest and maltreatnenr
OF employees 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
employees of the embassy situated next to the latter
1t can now be stated definitely that the actions
termed by Tchen a robber raid, were carried OUT
by soldiers and by the Picking police upon the orders
OF the Peking government Such violence is abso-
utely 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 building belonging
directly, stated in the note of the Picking govern
ment, to the complex of the Soviet embassy, then
1T 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 IN,
even refused this right to the ambassador Of the
Soviet Union, Tcherny himself Such an attitude
can only be explained by wish of the Picking
cabinet for the violence and plundering of It's
agents to take place in the absence of any offcia
personages. Only the completely improbable and
unbelievable statement of the Picking government
that weapons and documents were found during
the course OF the searches proving that an insur-
rection was being prepared, explains why the raid
upon the rooms of the military attache and upon
the rooms of the employees 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 is
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
9th April were actually found in the rooms raded
A. II the Picking cabinet had discovered that
Chinese citizens were present upon the territory
directly belonging to the Soviet embassy, Chinese
citizens who in the opinion of the Picking cabinet
conducted an activity hostile to the interests OF
the latter then it had the possibility and was It's
10 OfOF fircf III A.