The Vladivostok newspaper "Golos Rodiny" in its issue of; January under No. 888, as well as the)
Red Banner" of Vladi-|' vostok under the same date, publish a characteristically Bolshevistic de. cree of the so-called '"Dalrevkom," the Far Eastern Revolutionary Committee, at present the highest gov-emmental institution of the Russian Far East under the Reds.
The document reads as follows in accurate translation: panos. 6 past weeks it has been established that the General Manager of the Chinese Eastern Railway, engineer Ostroumoff, is occupying a position hostile to Russia. Being at the head of an enterprise which, though created on foreign territory, was built up on Russian money with the view to serve first of all Russian interests in the Far East, engineer Ostroumoff not only takes no measures to safeguard such interests but, on the contrary, does everything to undermine confidence in the existi Russian government, to limit its influence with regard to the enterprise under his management and to strengthen the influence of Chinese, Japanese and other foreign capital in the zone of the Chinese Eastern alway.
"Realizing, at the same time, the enormous significance of the railway as a link connecting the Russian railways with the Ussuri Railway for the development of the port of Vladivostok and the export of goods vid Egersheld, engineer Ostroumoff wilfully creates obstacles in this respect with the purpose of stimulate. ing the movement of goods vid Dairen in the interests of Japanese capital only.
"Thus, in the beginning of December, 1922, engineer "Ostroumoff refused to settle the accounts for transportation with the Ussuri Railway and within barely three weeks the indebtedness of the Chinese Eastern Railway to the Ussuri Railway rose to over 230,000 gold roubles. By refusing to pay that sum cashed in by the Chinese Eastern Railway, engineer Ostroumoff evidently intended to harm the, Ussuri Railway by diminishing its income and undermining its welfare, since the latter, in continuously carrying freight to Vladivostok, is exhausting its working capital by not receiving its share for the transportation of goods from the Chinese Eastern Railway. A "With this purpose in view engineer Ostroumoff tries by all means possible to undermine the confidence of the merchants with regard to the Ussuri Railway. Thus, he sent out a series of telegranis in which he artificially emphasized the question of the Chinese Eastern Railway's not being liable for goods transferred to the Ussuri Railway and issued an order to have the seals of the Chinese railway taken off the railway freight cars at station Pogranichnay and offering the Ussuri Railway to replace same with its own seals.
"All this was done with the self-evident purpose of shaking confidence in the Ussuri Railway and preventing the shipping of export goods to the Vladivostok port, thus encouraging the freight movement over the South Manchurian Railway to Dairen.
"All these acts are undoubtedly hostile to the interests of Russia and cause her enormous losses, and such losses are directly caused by a Russian citizen who is thus betraying the interests of the Russian people, in favour of her worst imperialistic enemy. This forces the Far Eastern' Revolutionary mittee, whose duty it is to watch over such interests, to take the most energetic measures against him who by such acts betrays Russia.
"Not being able at present to hand over engineer Ostroumoff for trial to the Revolutionary Tribunal, as he is now under the protection of foreign bayonets and has been rewarded for his treacherous work by 4 Chinese decoration, the Far Eastern: Revolutionary Committee herewith deprives Ostroumoff of the rights of Russian citizenship and declares him to be an outlaw.
"Each and every citizen of the Russiam Gocialistic Federal Soviet Republic shall herewith be bound, in regard to engineer Ostroumoff, at the first opportunity to seize him and place him at the disposal of the Revolutionary Committee or use all means available to fight engineer Ostroumoff, including even the tatter's annihilation.
"The present decree shall be widely published.
Signed:—President of the Dalrevkam, Kobozeff.
Secretary of the Dalrevkam, Stepanoff.""
The decree is published by Bolshevist papers. No comments are necessary. The document speaks for itself.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.