Tokyo, Aug. 29. loud, no bigger than a man's fhand"—"s "rife in. the lute"—threatens the pleasant course of [Russo-Japanese friendship. Japan insists on building a railway. This {is how the Japanese Government replies to Comrade Victor Kopp, the ISoviet Ambassador's protests {the building of the Toon gun by Japan upon the order Chang Tso-lin, "the War Lord of Mukden," and therefore by the 'Chinese' Government and not Japan. Of course, that the building is being done by' the South Manchuria Railway Ca., a Government railway, is not considered tothe point. 'Chang has ignored all pro-fests' from Moscow and says the railway is being built. in his. ter-Iritory (!) and by the South Manchuria railway and he has the right order and to do as he pleases in Manchuria. So Chang flings down the gauntlet to Moscow, Peking and Incidently to Tokyo. The Russians the new road is in competition the Chinese Eastern, and it South inner Mongolia of which the is-over lord. Comrade Amand the Foreign Office is somewhat Jembarassed. It may be, however, that work on the road will be ea pleted and turned over to Chang 'Tso-lin before the increasingly heat-Jed conversations are completed. 'Then one wonders what Moscow' will do about it. The contractor working day and night and says th job will be finished by the and of] October of this year.
Some sceptical people go 20 far las to assert that Japan is building ithe road and that Chang is quite: willing to appear as the man with Ithe money who is so suddenly anxious to develop the Gobi desert.
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