Situation Increasingly Serious:
Chinese Preparing to Seize the Whole Railway Harbin, Sept. 14.
Reuter's correspondent learns from well-informed—_ Russian sources that the conflict, caused by the attempt of the Chinese local authorities to size the land belonging to the Chinese Eastern Railway is becoming even more serious.
Notwithstanding the protest of the Powers the authorities are carrying their decision into effect, forcibly putting aside the land agents of the railway and coercing the owners of land sections into registering in the Chinese institutions, The announcement made by the principal. representative of local authority to the effect that the seizure of the land is the first" step towards the seizure of the entire railway, and that it is impossible to adhere to agreements made many years ago, has caused a profound impression of alarm.—Reuter.
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