There appears to be another explanation in sight in addition to this personal reason. its on. the Chinese Eastern Railway are becoming more and more Sovietized; Jand at present the Chinese members of the Board of Directors are in very ugly frame of mind. tibly the Soviet wish to placate them before they go into conference with Dr, C. T. Wang. It is to be hoped that this will' not prevent the Sovietization of the Chinese!
eastern from provoking the atten. tion it deserves. Comrade Ivanoff seems to be without any regard for the dual nature of the administration. In the tariff war he has inaugurated with the South Mai churia line, it is obvious that eyes have been set in one direction, moly, Vladivostok, the restoration of whose prosperity he has been told to assure as manager of the Chinese Eastern. This he can do} by damming the North Manchurian, traffic that thereto has flowed to along the
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