Evening star., 1929-11-26
ANT|-WAR TREATY
S|GNATOR|ES ASKED
FOR HELP BY CHINA
Appeal Is Also Addressed to
League of Nations to
Stop Invasion"
INTERNAL FACTIONS ACT
TO UNITE THEIR FORCES
Russians Continue Advances, With
Little or No Resistance From
Retreating Foes.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The council of the Chinese govern
nnent today addressed an appeal both to
the League of Nations and to individual
signatories of the Kellogg peace pact
to take steps to halt and punish the
Russian Soviet Invasion" of Chinese
territory, according to dispatches from
Nanking. The invasion was termed a
deliberate violation of the anti-war pact.
The various appeals were in identical
language and were sent under Mon
days date. They declared that, while
the Chinese government has always re-
mained on the defensive, despite re-
peated attacks, the Soviet Union has
without declaration of war invaded
China, occupied Chinese cities and
"massacred innocent Chinese citizens
in cold blood"
The note concludes expressing the
hope the signatories to the anti-war
pact will take appropriate steps to
stop and punish this deliberate viola
ton"
Chinese Leaders Confer.
Advices from Hankow reporting a lull
IN the fighting on China's newest civil
war fronts in Honan and Hupeh Prov
inces added weight today to Marking
dispatches indicating that factional
leaders were negotiating to end internal
strife, in order to combine their forces
to resist Russian troops invading Man
churia.
A Hankow dispatch said that, while
authorities there had not issued any
statement on the subject, 1t was gen.
orally believed the Nationalist govern
ment had reached an agreement with
the rebelliouS Kuominchun. or "Peo-
pies army" because the fighting had
subsided on all fronts and the Kuo-
minchun forces were withdrawing west
ward in both Honan and Hupeh.
Closely following this came dis
patch from Nanking stating that ap-
parently authentic reports said negoti-
ations were proceeding among outStand-
ing military and civil leaders of various
factions thF1ughout China seeking to
looking toward combination OF forces.
to resist Soviet attacks"
Would Discuss Railway.
At the same time Japanese sources In
Shanghai reported that Foreign Minis
ter c. T. Wang of the Nationalist gov
ernment had telegraphed Moscow on
cials asking that negotiations between
China and Russia concerning the Man.
churian railway controversy be re-
opened.
Dispatches on the Manchurian situ-
alton indicated that invading Russian
forces were in control of territory east
of the Khinghan Mountains. Soviet
tanks and artillery aided in the capture
of Knailar late Sunday in an engage
ment causing losses estimated at 10000.
The Chinese were reported to be re-
treating without resistance, even falling
to halt at Buchatu, $50 miles from
Khailar. Troops and civilians fled by
every possible means, living of the
country as they retreated.
Russians Seize Mines.
In Eastern Manchuria, which the
Russians also invaded, coal mines were
seized, with loss of life, as the Soviet
forces advanced to Ninguta, penetrating
Chinese territory more than 100 miles.
Hostilities between Russia and China
started last July over the question of
control of the Chinese Eastern Railway.
Up to that time it had been operated
jointly by the two governments. The
dispute started when Chinese authori-
tiles ousted the Russian officials of the
railroad and expelled them, asserting
they had disseminated propaganda
against the Chinese government.
Russian forces moved into Manchuria
after Sino-Russian negotiations for set
tlement of the railroad dispute had
failed.