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Show SOVIETS WE I OFFER TO CIS I Will Restore Chinese Eastern '' I Railway and All Mining ; Forestry Concessions I Seized by Russ j l PEKING, March 31. (By the Aa- '1 soclated Press) Restoration to China H without compensation of the Chinese Eastern railway and all mining and , H forestry concessions and privileges I seized by the former Russian. Impc- I rial regime. Alexander Keronsky, Hor- , I vath and Semenoff and Admiral Ivol- " I jchak, Is announced in a note to th ci I Chinese government from soviet au- ' I thorities at Irkutsk. Tho note also ; I renounces Indemnities arising out of I I ithc Boxer rebellion. ' ! H The Chinese foreign office Is not In- ( I clined to take the communication so1- i I riously, doubting tho authority of tho ' j I Soviets to make renunciations. j POLAND AWAITS REPLY WARSAW, April 7. Poland awafi a reply from the Russian bolshevik government relative to the proposed peace conference between the two countries and believes further exchanges ex-changes of notes concerning an armistice arm-istice and the place where the conference con-ference will meet ay useless, said a wireless message sent to Moscow by M. Patek. Polish foreign minister, to- i day. This note may be the last rela- 1 live to peace negotiations with the -1 bolshevik! to be sent by Poland, It Is -said. - j . . . i i |