The news that the Governor of Fengtien province has issued. instructions that cattle, or meat, are not to be sold to Russians, so they will eventually be used by the Russian military and thereby break the neutrality of China, is certainly farfetched piece of humbug on the part! of the official in question, and one wonders to what extent it is due to pro german views. Cattle originally belonging to the Mongols are bought by Chinese midtlemen in Inner Mongolia, which is now nominally administered by the Fengtien Government, The middlemen are in the habit of selling these to Russian contractors, who ship to North Manchuria and the Ussuri district, and no doubt much of this meat is eventually bought by the Russian Military Commissariat and consumed by the Russian sol-
"Fiat the Russian soldier in question is not engaged.in fighting with an enemy; he is merely required to prevent the possible outbreaks of unrest that may occur in his district and to preserve the pence, We may next, perhaps, hear that Chin-lease are prohibited from selling coal to the French Legation Guard in Peking, or flour to the British in Tientsin, or kerosene to the Japanese in' Tsingtao for all these are contraband of war.
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