The Soviet Government has therefore decided that the Port shall remain in the hands of the present management and rejected: the Chinese Eastern Railway proposition. At the same time the Soviet Government avowed it was most necessary to make use of the free capital of the CE.R. for the improving and enlarging of the port. Owing to the fact that there has been very little repairing done xinca the war, most elaborate pla have been drawn up for this work' which includes the whole of Via vostok and not Egersheld The total amount required million gold roubles and includes new jetties and wh: es, oil storage cisterns, elevators and" conveyers ete,, ete, It is estimated that the whole work can be completed in two years, ea that the Dalbank, where: the surplus funds of the C.E.R, now being placed, must. send_ this amount to Vladivostok, during this Moscow does not expect:
iMiculty about obtaining the for the Dalbank is able te spend any available cash where it wishes. Of course the question has not yet been brought up at the! Board Meeting of the C.ER. directors and even when it this body not be able decide one way or the other, for the Soviet representatives will be for the spending and the Chinese against, but in ths meantizve as the General Manager has his "ands free and as he has the support of the Council of the Railway Administration con: principally of Soviet heads: partments, he will go ahead and do what he likes. put forward to receive all the revenue in order to settle the bill owing by the CER. to the Russian Government, all the time more and more free cash is being placed in the Dalbank. will captain the three players chosen for the Davis Cup Competition at Lawn Tennis, namely, Tawara, Toba an Harda.—Reuter's Pacific Service.
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