Mayor Mashevitch, 43, and wife, and two children, and
nurse named Prolova.
Mashevitch states:-
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I was born at Crimea. I am Canton "Representative
of the Soviet Trade Mission" My office is at Pak Sha Road,
Tung Shan, near the American hospital. The Soviet Consulate
is next door. The office of the Trade Mission is at Moscow
but the Far Eastern office is at Tientsin. My salary is
paid by the Tientsin office but I sometimes receive direct
orders from Moscow. My business is to sell medicine, coal,
kerosene, marine plants, etc, to Chinese firms in China (Sth).
I get orders for these goods and Tientsin orders them from
Russia, the mercantile fleet brings the goods to Canton and I see that they are delivered to the respective firms and collect the money and remit it to Moscow, and in some cases to Tientsin. Business has been good up to now and my office
is on friendly terms with Chinese firms in South China.
Politics do not affect the business but we are not sure, at
the moment, of the attitude of the Canton Government. I have
just received telegraphic orders from Tientsin to return
there at once and to be prepared to send my family back to
Russia and to return alone to Canton, Goursky is not
Consul-General.
There are two vice consuls in Canton -
Goursky and Hassis, there is no Consul-General at Canton
just now. I have left my office in charge of Hassis. There
are about 20 Soviet Russian officials in Canton now, they
are mostly connected with the Consulate and with U.S.S.R.
Government merchant business. All the Russian women and
families are being sent to Shanghai and Russia in Chinese ships.
I first arrived in Canton in October 1926, I was appointed
to China by Moscow and sent to Canton by Tientsin. I hold
U.S.S.R. passport No. 1469 issued to me at Moscow 17-5-26,
with British visa "To Shanghai, in direct transit, through
Hong Kong" dated Canton 3-5-27.
6-5-27.
(sd). A. H. Elston,
A.S.I.