Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-05-16
Russian Secret Pact
With China Reds on
Manchuria Revealed
By George Weller
Foreign Correspondent of The Stor and
the Chicago Daily News

MUkDEN, Manchurla, May 10
A secret agreement between. Soviet
Army officials and Chinese Com
muniSt leaders for Joint action dur
ing the Russian occupation of Man.
churia has been revealed in high
Chinese quarters.
The accord is supposed to have
been signed at the Soviet high COM
mand here, but its 10 provisions
have been only partly carried out.
The agreement between the two
Communist armies followed closely
Russla's pledge in late December
to have all Red Army troops with
drawn from this country by Febru-
airy l.
Summarized, the agreement is as
follows:
l. The Soviets pledged to assign
5000 men and officers to help the
9th Route Army with technical
guidance and medical aid. The
SoViets also agreed, on departing
to leave a few army technicians
behind in plain clothes, disguised as
Sovietized White Russians.
2. The Soviets pledged to give
the Communist Army, which had
entered Manchuria by Soviet con-
sent, training in interrupting rail-
roads and also to furnish explosives.
Pledge Given.
3. The Chinese Communists
pledged that the troops under Gen.
Ii Yung-chang would renew their
efforts to interrupt the Tientsin-
ShanhaikWan railroad where United
States Marines had been stationed
to maintain traffic and protect vul-
nerable points, such as bridges.
4. The Soviets pledged to provide
20 armed patrol boats to monitor
ship traffic entering the Yellow Sea
between Chefoo and Dairen, with
especial reference to American Navy
transports bringing Nationalist
troops intended for Manchurian
duty.
5. The Chinese Com mum S
agreed to organize groups to make
alrflelds unusuable, to guard against
any sudden airborne invasion by the
Nationalist. The Comm nis S
agreed to begin this part of the
Joint defense of Manchuria, on
January 10, if the Russians furnish
ed the materials.
Seaports Held.
6. The Communists pledge not to
surrender any Manchurian seapOrtS
to the Nationalist army. This pro-
vision apparently was made because
the Communists first received YIN
koW from the Russians and fired on
American landing craft attempting
to put the Nationalist ashore there.
Later, however, the Communists
withdraw. leaving YingkoW unde-
Tended and the Nationalist took the
port The Communist army, pur-
poSely, at Russian suggestion, then
retook YingkoW, which only recently
has been again recovered by the
Nationalist. Since American Navy
orders forbade landing in Com
munist ports the Communists pres
ence at YlngkoW automatically
closed it,.
7. The Chinese Communists con-
sented, in anticipation of their
eventual control of Manchuria, that
10000 soldiers of the Chinese wing
of the Soviet Army-who earned
their favored status by fighting
against the Japs in the prewar
Siberian skirmishes-should estab-
lish a permanent base in Hsingan
Province near Manchouli and
Hailar, in Northwest Manchuria.
Ten thousand such Sovietized
Chinese were to proceed into North
ern Korea to join the Russian
fostered Korean Communist Army,
repeatedly numbering 10000.
Railroad Reduced.
8. The Communists agreed that
the double tracked railroad from
Penshi ca Communist industrial city
captured fortnight ago by the
Natlonal1StS) to the seaport of
Antung should be reduced to a one
track line, apparently so that Dairen
and Mukden alone would be double
tracked, as a precaution against
rebuilding. The uplifted rails were
to be delivered to the Russians.
9 The Chinese Communists agreed
that Manchuria's strategic railroad
from Hardin through Changchun
and Mukden to Dairen, in which the
Russians enjoy joint rights under
the SinO-SOViet agreement PLANNED