Japanese Position Likely to Be Affected by Sudden Growth of Bolshevik Power Peking, Oct. 8.
A Harbin report says that the arrests of Messrs. Ostroumoff, Gondatti and Michailoff were made by the Mukden General, but the Commissioner for Foreign Affairs states that Marshal Chang Tso-lin did not order the arrests.
Yesterday two further arrests were made, Mr. Stepunin, head book-keeper of the Chinese Eastern Railway, and Mr, Gavriloff, a Russian merchant of Harbin. Although the latter is not concerned with the railway, he was involved in the purchase of rails from the Vladivostok Government by the Chinese Eastern Railway two years ago. It is reported his arrest was due to his connexion with th So far no wholesale arrests or dismissals of the numerous White Russians employed on the Chinese Eastern Railway have been made, but Soviet control is so strong that the Mukden agreement and the prompt measures taken afterwards fare spoken of in Harbin as a coup d'état, which will strongly affect the Japanese position in
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