Harbin, March 6.
The question of Chinese assumption of control of the local Muncipal Council is still largely commented on here. A committee consisting of one'Chinese and one Russian member of the C.E.R. Board of Directors and one representative of the Taoyin will shortly be appointed to discuss the question in detail.
In has been frequently pointed out here that Chinese action with regard to the Council should not be regarded as based on the Peking Agreement with the Russo-Asiatic Bank of last October, but upon the President's decree of September 23, abolishing Russian political rights in China, whereof the Peking Agreement was only the result.—Reuter.
Siberian Border Reopened Harbin, March 5.
Representatives of the Chinese Eastern Railway and M. Rebikoff, the Assistant Minister of Transport of the Far Eastern Republic, yesterday evening signed an agreement at Manchuria Station, for the re-opening of the Manchurian-Siberian frontier. The manager of the C. E. R. at once issued instructions accordingly and the first through train left Manchuria Station this morning.
The terms of the agreement atte approximately those forecasted ty Reuter on March 2; viz.;—division of Manchuria Station into Russian and Chinese sections with separate stations and strict discrimination as regards technical equipment aad rolling stock. The sanitary regulations of the C. E. R. will be enforced on all trains, owing to the plague epidemic.—Reuter.
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