Harbin, Oct, 2.
'Mr. Vu, the President of the CER, who has been given certain powers by Marshal Chang, is now' making himself personally acquainted with railway matters and 80 f there have been developments. It is, however, freely circulated in Railway circles, that big changes are to take place and that several departments—are to have new Chinese instead Russian, the Chinese insisting on parity a3 laid down in the Mukden Agreement. It is now stated that there are over 40 per cent, of Chinese employees on the Railway. This may be true, but the majority of Chinese employees occupy very humble positions, the actual directing of all technical departments being in the hands of Soviet citizens. The powers of _the Chinese assistant-general. manager are also to be increased, for at the present moment, it is the Russian assistant-manager who has in his"hands the entire technical working of the 'Railway and who receives daily the personal reports of each head of department, 'The matter of the maintenance of the Railway Schools is still yet undecided, and so far the new Educational Dept. Special 'Area, has_not_ rei from' the C.E.R, remaining unpaid, On account of the lack of' funds. teachers schools-exclusive of the: C. E, E. R—are all having their salaries cut considerably and new teachers are being engaged at the decreased rates.
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