The two new Russian members of the Railway Board duly arrived last Monday and have taken up their duties, but 40 far there has been no oficial meeting of the Board of Directors though there now is a quorum in Harbin. Who is to be the new Soviet Consul-General hai alto not yet been divulged. Report has it that either Mr. Savrosoff, the new vice-president, or Mr, Gekker, the new member of the C.E.R. Board, in to receive the appointment, but this is hardly likely, unless' one of them resigns his present appoint~ ment, agreed upon with Chinese cing it has been mutually the authorities that the U. consul generalship shall not be held by a member of the Railway Directorate. The appointment of the fifth Russian.
native on the C.E.R. has also'
made public and will Karatehan when he reaches rebably be done by Comrade The Soviet Dynamite Plot Viasenko, the Russian ex-policeman who was arrested for having changed the photograph and initials of Burlakoff, of dynamite fame, in the Police Archives and whose case was heard at the local Courts, has been sent to Mukden, where he will be confined with the other two Russians. This~has been done because the Chinese authorities appear to be convinced that _Viasenko had close dealings with Burlakoff. Whether or not their trial will take place in the near future or not is a matter of conjecture. It is thought that the prisoners will be detained at pleasure as political hostages of the U.S.S.R. and that their ultimate fate depends on the future attitude of the Soviet Government towards China,
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