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RUMOURED RUSSO-JAPANESE NEGOTIATIONS.
RUSSIAN ENGINEERS BECOMING NATURALISED CHINESE CITIZENS.
PEPING, October 1. The report that Soviet Russia has arranged to sell out her interest in the southern part of the Chinese Eastern Railway to Japan is being persistently circulated in North China by the Anglo-Asiatic Tele graph Agency (Angusta), which is generally regarded as pro-Soviet.
The report has not been carried by any other news agency from any part of the world. But the Angasta Agency has issued the report on, several occasions, under date-lines from Shanghai. Mukden. Tientsin, and Berlin. As it was first issued, the report was described as a rumpur." but a later message
stated that the rumour has been con- Armed in Berlin,
Secrecy and Sliance, The Agency states that negotia. tions between Japan and Soviet Russia are proceeding in the strict- est werecy, but that the Soviets have now decided to sell out their interests in the Chinese-Eastern from Changchun to Harbin.
In a later message, the Angasta Agency points out the fact that the Moscow Government-controlled! Press has been absolutely silent about this report, although the Soviet Government never waster
time in denying rumours. "It is a curious symptom," says Angasta, "The the Soviet Press during last year, when... rumours also were spread about the intended sale of the southern line, in most de cisive manner refuted this report, while at present the leading news papers both of Japan and Russia are maintaining mysterious silence."
This
Converting the ** Radishes,” Perhaps the larger number of Russians employed on the Chinese Eastern have been radishes," as they are called in. Harbin. slang expression refers to the fact that outwardly they are Red, hav ing Soviet passports, but at heart they are White. The Chinese are secking to change these "radiahes" into Chinese.
Conditions at present are favour able to this campaign. When Soviet officials held the dominant positions on the railway. White Russians with Chinese passports were not well treated, according to impartial testimony in Harbin Soviet passports were essential to prompt promotion, and
White Russians, whose motives in taking cut either passport "were largely economic, chose the better way.
But during the past months, the Chinese have controlled the line absolutely, and have given Asaur ances that the Soviets will never again gain a dominant position, no matter what agreement is made. Under the 1024 Agreements, the Soviets cannot press for a favoured position on the fine.
M.ANCHULI DESERTED.
EFFECT OF FIGHTING UPON TRADE.
[United Press.)
MANCHULI, October 4 Guerilla warfare between Russian
and Manchurian troops who haye faced each other, for months along the wind-swept Sino-Soviet: border which fronts this city has taken a heavy toll on the prosperity of Man-
chuli.
The population of the city, once an important railway point and trade centre, has shrunk from 18,000 to 3,000 since the "severance of
The mujority of tending-posts and Russo Chinese relations last July, shops have closed, less than 150 of coo establishments remaining open.
Hundreds of people have left the city of Harbin or Thitsigbar after each of the dozen or more big border clashes which have oc curred in the last two and a half months. The last exocius was early this month, after Manchurian and each other for the better part of Soviet troops had blazed away at
full day (without great loss of life on either side). People were frantic to get away and. despite the cold weather, crowded on the tops of cars as the train steamed away, towards Harbin,
Food Short and Prices High. Living prices have soared to unheard-of proportions and peny aemi-necessities cannot be obtained. How to Get Promotion,
There is a great shortage of sugar So the Chinese have promised and tea now, but additional ship- White Russian technicians workingents of these necessities are ex
pected shortly. North Manchurians on the railway that they will be must have their tea, steaming hot. promoted rapidly if they will take Russian fashion, every hour. Most out Chinese passports, and if they fit comes from Hankow in hard, black blocks, from which sufficient persist in holding their Soviet pass to brew a potent draught is shaved ports, they will be discharged or regarded with suspicion. Beliable reports from Harbin state that about 150 of the better-trained Russian technicians have changed their passports since the break with the Soviets in July.
with a knife.
in the uplands, and troops of both armies are suffering. Chinese soldiers waddle about in heavy quilted uniforms, some of them with fur neck-pieces. Others have great- coats lined with sheep skin. The Russiau patrols, which we can see through our glasses daily, are wear- ing heavy overcoats and boots and peaked caps. They appear well; clad
The weather is bitter cold here!
All sorts of rumours are in circu-
The Legal Aipėċt. This report is
Russian Co-operation Expected. not regarded seriously in Peping, although the
The Chinese declare that event experta appear to be divided as totally Soviet Russia will be given whether Soviet Russia might sell her joint share in operation of the lation here daily regarding negotia- out her interests in part of the line, but that she will never again tions for settlement of the Chinese Chinese-Eastern under the Mukden regain a
Eastern Railway dispute. The popu- dominant position in lation has heard so many stories, and Peping Agreements of 1924. operation. Plans are being made however, that it pays little atten Some experts declare this would steadily during the interim period tion to anything. It is bother' not be permissible in international in strengthening the Chinese poei- enough just to live from day to day. law, while others see nothing in the tion, so that they can hold their agreement which would prevent the own against the Soviet managers Soviet from turning over their in- when they retum, and the Chinese terests to Japan so long as the believe that the allegiance of this Mukden and Peping Agreement large group of Russian technicians, were not infringed.
with no real sympathy for the Soviets, will do more than anything else to enable them to share fully in joint operation of the railway
The experts agree, however, that such transaction would be dificult to prevent under the 1924 Agree ments, as it would be difficult to prove that China's sovereignty had been violated by such a sale.
Is It a Bluff 7
There is more interest here, how- ever, in the motive of the Angasia News Agency in circulating this report so assiduously. The Agency announces as its proprietor B. Hayton Fleet, ar Englishman. editor of a small newspaper in Harbin, Ita Tientsin office operated by an American mining engineer named Crawford, who spent 20 years in Siberia,
The Agency rende its daily reports free of charge all newspapers and foreign correspondents. It must therefore have a subsidy from some Bource, ne it has no ostensible theans of support. Its dispatches have been friendly to the Soviet.
The only motive suggested here in circulating this repart is that Soviet Russia hopes in this way to frighten China into a settlement of the Cincac-Eastern question, be lieving that if the Soviets are likely to sell out part of the railway to Japan, China would consider it better to meet the Soviet terms for settlement.
How China, Secures Engineers When and if Soviet Russia re- sumes joint control of the Chinese Eastern Railway, she will find the Chinese better prepared to assume an actual half-share in the manage ment of the line, according to re- Biable foreign reports from Harbin.
During the months the Chinese have operated the line unassisted, these reports atute, they have brought strong pressure upon all Russian technicians who have re. mained at work to transfer their allegiance from Soviet Russia to China, This has been done by giving up their Soviet passports, and taking out papers making them Chinese, citizena.
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TRANS-PACIFIC FLYING.
AMERICAN PROJECT.
[United Press.]
TOKYO, October 10. The Bureau of Aeronautics of the iinistry of Communications here has granted an application. to land in Japan filed by the American Em- bassy on behalf of Tex Froelich, an American military reserve avintor, who plans a non-stop fight heross the Pacific from the United States to Japan,"possibly next month
Froelich plans to start from Bol- ling Field. Washington, according to reports, and will re-fuel his inchine in the air. The report does not state whether he will land at some point on the Pacific coast of the United States before his hop aff for Japan, but the fact that he plans re-fuelling in the air is taken. as evidence he hopes to make a non-stop fight from Washington to Tokyo. If successful his fight would
he the longest on record.
The aviator will be accompanied. by an assistant, Joseph Burroughs, and will fly a standard model Fair- child monoplane, equipped with a 525 horse-power Pratt and Whit- ner Hornet engine. He plans to follow the grent circle route-the shortest distance between Japan and the American mainland..
The American Embassy here has no information other than that con- tained in Froelich's telegram asking it to apply for a landing permit, and permitting to fly over Japanese It is territory when necessary. keeping his plans secret, so he will understood Froelich purposely in
not be embarrassed in the event. that he has to pastpone his effort.
Japanese aviation officials have advised the Embassy that flight
The Chinese have had few technicians competent to work on the line, and the result has been that Russians have been given the better positioni, because the over the North Pacific at this sex- Mukden and Peping Agreements of son of the year would be extremely 1924 stated that “other things being dangerous owing to the prevalenço, equal," Chinese and Russians shenld of fogs, rain and unfavourable
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