Evening star., 1950-02-15
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lin and Foreign Minister Andrei
Y. Vishinsky for the Soviet Un-
ion and Chinese Communist Lead
er Mao Tze-tung and Premier and
Foreign Minister Chou En-lai for
China. Vishinsky and Chou signed
the documents.
A treaty of friendship, alliance
and mutual aid calls for the full
est assistant by either party if the
other is attacked by Japan cor
any other state which directly or
indirectly would unit in any form
with Japan in acts of aggression.
The treaties bring to an end the
1945 Russo-Chinese pact, signed
as the result of the Yalta agree
ment, in which the Soviets were
given hand in control of the
Manchurian naval base at Port
Arthur, the Port of Dairen and
the Changchun railroad through
Southern Manchuria.
1907 DeaQllne Set.
The new Manchurian agree
ments are to become effective i'm
mediately on conclusion of Jap
anese peace treaty or not later
than 1852. They provide that:
l.. The Soviet Union will trans
fer without compensation all it's
rights in the joint administration
of the Changchun railway, which
runs through Southern Manchuria
and connects with the Soviet port
of Vladivostok.
2. Soviet troops will be with
drawn from the jointly operated
naval base at Port Arthur. install
lations In the district will be
turned over to China, and China
is to pay the Soviet Union for
their restoration and for building
carried out since 1945.
8. Administration in the free
port of Dairen is to be transferred
from Russian management to
Chinese, and all properties now
leased in the area by Russia are
to be returned to China.
1945 Provisions Abolished.
These three points will abolish
the provisions of the Russo
Chinese pact of 1945. In that pact
Generalissimo Chang Kai-shek's
Nationalist government agreed to
permit Russia to operate the
Changchun railroad. Joint use of
the ice-free naval base at Port
Arthur, with Russia in charge of
Its defense, was provided for.
Dairen, also ice-free the year
around, was declared a free port
with the harbor master to be a
Russian and Russia getting free
lease on half the port installa-
tions and equipment. Both ports
are in the North China Sea and
are Russia's only year-round out
let to the Pacific.
Russia also agreed to grant
$500 million in credits to China
over five-year period for the
purchase of made indus
trial equipment and other mate
rails. The credits are divided into
lnstallments of $50 million yearly
and are to be repaid in 10 annual
payments at ! per cent interest,
beginning in 1854.
The text of the agreement calls
tor the loan to be calculated in
American dollars.
The Foreign Ministers also ex-
changed notes providing for the
transfer to China of "all buildings
Of former military cantonments."
This obviously referred to military
barracks set up in Peiping by the
Did Czarist Russian regime.
Signing Celebrated.
The signing of the agreements
was celebrated at a reception at
the Chinese Embassy which was
attended by Prime Minister Stain.
1t was the first time since the
war that the Soviet Premier had
been a guest of a foreign embassy
In Moscow. This was regarded as
D sign of his high esteem for the
Chinese Communist leaders.
After the signing, Chou said in