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CHINA AND RUSSIA BONE OF CONTENTION MOTOR FATALITIES

VLADIVOSTOCK CONSUL'S

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GERMANY'S. DECLARATION

Tokyo, Yesterday.

The Chinese Consul-General and the Consular Staff from Vladivos- tock have arrived at Tsuruga, -on leaving Soviet soil.

The Consul-General states that he and his staff met with no ill- treatment but the Chinese

munity at Vladivostock is suffering owing to the refusal of the Soviet authorities to provide foodstuffs.

The Consul-General added that Soviet troops at. Vladivostock were drilling day and night, and that motor-ears and other vehicles have been commandeared.-Reuter.

IN CHINA

RAILWAY PROBLEM

FACTS ABOUT THE "CHINESE

EASTERN LINE”

HOW RUSSIA. LOST GROUND

DRIVER ON CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER

STUDENT'S STORY

The hearing was adjourned at the Kowloon Police Court yesterday in which a Chinese driver of a Ford motor track is charged with manslaughter in connection with the death of a pedes- trian who was killed as a result of accused's lorry running into the kerb and knocking him down, near the junc-

tion of Nathan and Waterloo-roads on July 5.

the road.

By a Special Correspondent.] No wonder there has been com-

quarrel about the Chinese Eastern Railway. From the latest statistics

A student who was an eye-witness of available, it appears to be one of the the fatality said that the accused made few paying lines in Chinese ter- a sweeping motion" with his right ritory-and, furthermore, it seems hand, but he was not in a position to to pay handsomely!

say what it meant. A motor-bus was up Nathan-road from Mong- Few people, however, have more coming than a vague idea of where the kok, and accused's truck was not go- Powers' Efforts

C.E.R. is. Even some of the China ing very fast. But the fact that a bus was approaching might have caused hands who have gone Home or Washington, Yesterday.

accused to swervé quickly to the left of Germany has informed the United come out via Siberia can only say indefinitely that it is in Manchuria, States of America that she fully as- sociated herself with the efforts of or that it is a part of the so-called other Powers to effect a peaceful, "International route." settlement of the Russo-Chinese Roughly speaking, the C.E.R. fence. dispute.

across Manchuria from Her co-operation was in-stretches vited or. July 23.--Reuter's Ameri-east to west; but there is another belonging to the China Light and part, from the middle of the main Power (1918). Ltd, was standing at line, running from north to south. the side of Prince Edward-road yes- terday outside the Kowloon Dairy, a vehicle of the Kowloon Motor Bus Co., mashed into the car, completely dam- aging it and propelling it off the road

can Service,

China's Plenipotentiary

Shanghai, Yesterday. Mr. Chu Shu-yang, China's special delegate to negotiate with Russia for the settlement of the Chinese Eastern Railway issue, is on his way to Mukden firat for the purpose of consulting General Chang Haueh- liang on the subject and obtaining full information before he proceeds to Harbin to propose to the Russian authorities for a preliminary meet

Ing there.

The Chinese Foreign office points out that the departure of the Charge d'Affaires and Embassy staff from Moscow is the natural consequence "following the rupture of Sino-Russian relations which was initiated by the Soviet Government and does not indicate that China 18 assuming a belligerent attitude to- wards Russia."-Nan Chung : Kuo News Service.

Manchuli.

Hostilities Denied

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Where the Lines Meet Supposing one decides to return to the Old Country by the Siberian way. One takes passage first of all, of course, from Hong Kong to Shanghai. From Shanghai there are two choices.

Mr. L. R. Andrewes is conducting the case for the Crown and Mr. J. H. Armstrong is appearing for the de-

Youth Killed

While an Austin Seven motor-car,

into a ditch.

After the collision, the bus swerved being out of control) and knocked down a Chinese youth, who was in-

One is by sea to Dairen, the stantly killed.

Japanese port in the extreme south The driver of the motor-bus has been of Manchuria, then northward up detained and will appear before the

Kowloon Magistrate on Monday. the South Manchuria Railway (owned by Japan) to Changchun. At Changchun, there is a change to

be made and the journey northward tion of the Siberian Railway to continues (in the same direction), Vladivostock,

but on the Chinese Eastern Rail- The line through Manchuria is

way to Harbin.

goes

a short out for the convenience of

But that short cut has become a

Harbin is in the middle of the Russia, so that it was the original main line of the Chinese Eastern intention) she could reach the Railway, being at the junction of Pacific more quickly and by a direct the main with the brauch which route.

South south to meet the Manchuria line. In fact, the rail-remunerative business proposition. way "made" Harbin.

It was launched by Russia but it is! on Chinese soil. Hence the joint control, over which the dispute has arisen.

The

It

Trans-Siberian Railway Peking, Yesterday.

Another way of getting from Shanghai to Harbin is to take train Messages from foreign adurces in Harbin sent off on the afternoon to Nanking, cross the Yangtsze

Russo-Japanese War of July 25 do not mention the re-

River by ferry, go north by train Construction began in 1897, ported outbreak of hostilities at and then transfer to the Peking-Russia providing the capital.

On the contrary, they Mukden Railway which takes one to cost was 350,000,000 roubles.

the was not until July state that high Chinese military Mukden, this city being on

1903, that the officials have made statement South Manchuria Railway, From line was opened to traffic. (And, it that in the event of a Russian ad- Mukden the train goes north to may be noted, the Russo-Japanese vance, the Chinese troops have Changchun and then, again, to War, which "put Japan on the map" been instructed to withdraw with Harbin.

began the next year.) out resistance.

..From Harbin the face is set

After Russia's rebuff at Nippon's Additionally, messages from west to Manchuli, after which the hands, she lost ground. Then came Mukden and Harbin stress the train enters Siberia, across to the world war, the red revolution present highly conciliatory at-Russia-in-Europe, etc. And

and the present regime. titude of the Manchurian authori: I part of the journey in Europe is In 1924 an Agreement was sign- tjes,

usually done by air nowadaye.

ed in Mukden between the late Conversely, therefore, trains Marshal Chang Tsc-lin, the then of Manchuria Meantime, the closing of the from Europe leave Siberia and feudal overlord

enter Manchuria at Manchuli. (whose son, General Chang Hsueh- is seriously affecting trade and causing heavy losses to After reaching Harbin, however, liang is now the Governor re- continue eastward to cognised by the National Govern- merchants, who are unable to fulfil the trains contracts to ship Manchurian Suifenho, in the east of Manchuria. ment), and Soviet representatives. producte to Vladivostock Vast Leaving Chinese territory once Control was vested, in a Board of quantities of products are concen- more, the east-bound train the Directors composed of five Soviet trated at Harbin at present usable crosses a narrow stretch of Siberia and five Manchurian officials.

which lies between Manchuria and The then Engineer-in-Chief. (Mr. the Pacific Ocean (transversed by B. Oatroumoff) and other Russian the Ussuri Railway) and arrives at officials were dismissed and placed Vladivostock, on the coast.

under arrest.

However, the main life (east to In other words the train takes a west) is 1,078 miles long (running | are being well treated at Blagoves-straight line between Manchuli and from Manchull to Suifenho via

Suifenho instead of making a wide Harbin).

Merchants Hard Hit

frontiers

to move.

Harbin currency is dropping seri- ously, the latest quotation being 60 yen to a Harbin $200.

Mrs. Talbot has informed her

Į husband that she and her daughter

chensk-Reuter.

Why the Dual Control

The branch lines and [The Chinese steamers "I Lan" and detour to the north of that large station tracks are. 621 miles long, "Hei Chong"

were captured by a piece of Manchuria which abuts into the principal brauch being, as ex Russian gunboat on the Amur River, the south-east of Siberia. Instead plained, from Harbin down to

ear Blagoveschensk, on July 20, of following the straight line now Changchun. Aboard the I Lan, was Mrs. Roy that trouble has broken out, the The following figures make in- Talbot, wife of the Chinese Customs Russians send their trains by the teresting reading-- Commissioner at Taheiho, with her small child.]

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feet, Sungurl River 3,115 feet The longest and fastest through have not had the final say over the Moudadlang 1805 feet, Sungarl run was from Manchuli, in the disposition of the surplus revenue. River (south of Harbin) 2,415 feet, west, to Pogranichnays, near the interest but, under an Agreement Not only has Japan as indirect

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