Guard stationed at Mayzievak telephoned a report to the Commandant at Manchuria Station, and a demand was sent to the Bolsheviks that the prisoners should be released at once. The demand was supported by holding up a train about to leave Qlanchuria Station for the Trans-Baikal. The prisoners were then allowed to return to Manchuria, after which the train was permitted to proceed.
The Chinese authorities then, at the instigation of M. d'Anjou, Custom Commissioner at Harbin, demanded that the Bolshevik: should return the arms they he taken from the prisoners, purus the Russian Frontier guard who had captured them and make proper apologies for the affair To this the Soviet representatives at Manchuli, Pochvalinsky, made a counter-demand that the party captured be punished, as well as the officer at Manchuli who had detained the train.
Notice was then sent, yesterday, to the Russians, that if the three demands made by the Chinese authorities were not complied with within 24 hours, the Russian Customs on the Chinese side of the frontier would be closed. This Simit s to-day.—Reuter.
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