A good deal of interest is being pai taken in the negotiations now being. conducted between Marshal Chang way Tso-lin and the Soviet in Mukden.
Chang's attitude towards the agreement recently concluded between Dr. Wellington Koo and Mr. Karaihan is well-known; he is not interested in it, It seems that he will take up with the Soviet representative all the questions that affect his territory, whether they are covered by the Koo-Karakhan instrument or not.
Tam informed by somebody a has Intely had an interview with him that the Manchurian chieftain is most eloquent on the subject of the fall of the rouble. Apparently, hho has not despaired of ever getting his money back, unlike most, people who have roubles in their Possession, and it is likely that he will go so far as to insist on some reparation on behalf of himself and other people in Manchuria as a condition precedent to an agreement.
Before the Revolution all wages fon the Chinese Eastern Railway were paid in roubles, large holdings of which are still in Mukden and the cities along the railway. Marshal Chang contends that if the Soviet claims to be heir to the privileges of the old Tsarist gor ernment, it_must shoulder a few of the obligations, the redemption of some of the rouble issues being the most important. He points to the great distress "caused by the depreciation in the rouble among the Chinese working classes Manchuria, whose cause in. this particular affair is his cause, there being undoubtedly an identity of interest in recouping losses sustain.
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Questioned concerning his attitude toward Peking, the Governor said that while China remained dis ordered, it were better for the Three Eastern Provinees to remain aloof from the Central Govern-but he assured his inter-jewer that when order was reste ed, he would gladly obey the Pre he said, he could not see that tim ly years: he could in China a single' man who. was capable of palling China through her present crisis.
This left the questioner to infer that he would proceed with his policy of consolidating his independence, and a remark that he had 300,000 men under arms seemed to ask for the inference.
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