It is but natural that with the return of Karakhan, the activities of Soviet Agents in the CER. should become renewed. It is, therefore, not at all surprising that the General Manager of the /Railway has announced that from the beginning of next year the Russo Chinese Technical Institute, training both Chinese and Russian youths to become engineers, surveyors etc, will no longer' enjoy the $70,000 " yearly subsidy it has been receiving.
This worthy Institution, which by the way is lodged in the building formerly occupied by the Teariat Consulate, has an excellent teaching staff of qualified professors, engineers, but they are White Rustians and the programme followed—is according to the old Russian order of things, which of course goes against the grain of Soviet citizens.
The official reason given out for the withdrawal of this subsidy ie that the Institation has nothing in common with the Railway, that the president and the committee are not railway men at all, and that the students after taking their diplomas, cannot be employed on the CER. as they have not the qualifications demanded by the Soviet Government.
This is indeed a slap at the faces of the Chinese, for both the president and vice-president of the Institute are Chinese as well as some of those on the Committee. The young Chinese students who were receiving their education here were being well instructed and undoubtedly when qualified will receive Positions on the CER, where the Chinese quota as "agreed upon the Mukden-Soviet Agreement is by no means filled up. The matter is likely to have the immediate attention of the Board of Directors! When they meet again, and there is no doubt that Mr. Liu, the vice-president, who has already on several occasions objected to° the General Manager's orbitary acts, will strongly protest against the annalling of the subsidy.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.