Anyway, the Japanese, rendered very annoyed by the selfish policy Jof the new administrators of the IE. BR, have effected a railway understanding with Chang Tso-lin, jaimed at the C. E.R, It is said that the Taonantu-Tsitsihar railway Is Jjust a link in a scheme for which the Japanese Government have already made quite a big approxi Jation, It is planned not only to meet {this competition from Vindivostok, but to crush it. If the plan is successful, Dairen will be preserved ins its proemment position, and one other port will be constructed on the Korean coastline to cope with the Jadditional traffic which it is. expected will be re-diverted from Vladivostok. Dairen's ce-partner in this enterprise is situated about 120 miles from Vladivostok, and is called Seishin, and the scheme contem-Mates the construction of a. line from Kirin directly across to this port, thus paralleling the service offered by the Ussuri railway. in Viadivostok's interest, The from Kirin extends to. Chi and eventually, it is hoped, Tsitsihur. The Jupanege are enlisting Chang's support for_ this enterprise. An alternative scheme is @ railway from Mukden to Hale lung, to be afterward extended to Kirin and Suifenho, The Bolshevik Dictator The way the Soviet is behaving fe serving the purpose of inclining the Mukden authorities in the direction of the Japanese. Ivanoff is a true latter-day Moscovites he believes in autocracy, and in any rights but China's "rights, The Chinese members of the Directorate fare not disposed to accept his dictatorship, but they are really helpless because he and his cohorts have been successful in preventing the meeting of the Board body, which means that to run the Se ould take a trip Moscow, combining the pleasure of meeting the Commisears with the business of learning something about management, The vitation. But has not prevented him from initiating such reforms as the appointment of 209 viet nominees in the administra out of the last batch of 900 enlistments, which is hardly what one might' call a fifty-fifty pro= position,
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