For having assaulted a Cossack, who objected to Communistic songs sung by some employees of the! Dalbank, at a small restaurant on the other side of the river, the latter were sentenced to a couple of months of imprisonment. 'The Cossack himself received a gaol sentence, too, for retaliating. The latter' was employed in one of the river steamers, got some sailors to take his part when be escaped from his. assailants and who in turn on their way-home were mauled about. The {Communists were defended by the! U.SSR. Consulate counsel, who tried to prove that it was his clients' 1 Who were in the right. The judge {pointed out that he was impartial and cared not whether Russians were red or white; they had broken the peace and therefore must be punished.
Nov. 5.
Official news is now to hand from Moscow thatthe position of Vice-President of the Chinese Eastern, Railway, formerly filled by Grandt, the U.SS.R. Consul eral, has been given to M. Savri off. One of the vacancies on the Board will be taken by Mr. Gekker. Both these appointees left Moscow on the 3rd instant and should reach Harbin on November 13. There is atill another place to the filled on the board by a Russian representative and report has it that Mr, Hodorof? will get the post. The Board of Directors will then be at its full strength.
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