'The locat' Rwsisn press Ts being thoroughly "muzzled" at pre sent' by. the Chinese authorities, who have tasued 13. new regula: Yions for the newspapers to. follow, particularly directed at the kind Of news which may be published. The intention is to pre-Vent Bolshevik propaganda but the effect is. to. make it-extreme= result for. the new publish any news at all. the new regulation went into effect local news, of interest, expecially relating to things Chinese, has been very scarce in Russian news: general impression inman ways is tha Tocal "Chinese police " authorities fre running a bit on the "grandmotherly" side in the numerous rules and regulations they impose tupan the inhabitants of this town. Vontenst the ironclad regulations posed on newspaper and o'ler publications by the Chinese auth-Grities, here, with the mild regulations so. long put. forward for approval by the S. M, C, and in Shanghai PP"
virulently opposed Another contingent nationals—the majority formerly employees of th:
stern Railway, and thei They were held up at for a few days, owing to he demands from the railway for Vamwage charges from M te Moscow, but—this has ow been fixed up and the emigrants, number left Manchulia few days ago 35 goods cars. One cannot envy ther: their journey. The cost of their transportation is being borne Sungari just bey units have recently led tu enter prising hungutzes taking advantage of them. Several boats have been stopped ey boats carrying armed Chinese and the occupants rel fed of their valuables. The n poi'ee are not in sufficient num-hers to keep a close watch over the outer reaches of the barbour, Lut arrangements have been made by the authorities to give better jin harbour limits: responsibility is accepted for which may' happen to pleasure parties beyond the Customs barriers, above or below Harbin. The hunghutze ate als" inclined to be active along the railway, the passenger, train from Iarbin' to Chacgchun "on Sunday evening Inst being fired upon some Tittle way south of Harbin. The jergine driver "stepped on the ga-heavily as possible "and the train passed safely through the firing without any casualties.
announced by the Chinese Post Office that in future mails iq Siberia will be despatched! twice weekly. on Mondays and Wednesdays, instead of a& now once 2 week. The mail ser vice by this route appears to be working quite smoothly as letters from home arrive berg regularly every Friday morning, usual only" taking 15 days in transit feom London which is almost down to_pre-war time standard.
Business has been very quiet Fore "for the past month or more and will no doubt continue to be until the harvest is gathered end the new season's bean crop appears on the market. At present everything is very flat and there is no life in either export import business, but there is a firm undertone consequent upon the optimistic expectations of an excellent harvest.
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