While this consultation was taking place, there arrived at the Courts the chief of the Kirin Dipplomatic Bureau, accompanied by several Chinese Court officials and police. The former asked to see the President of the Court and handed him a document from the Harbin Taoying, telling the president at the same time that he had come to receive all the archives of the Court. The declaration of the Taoying was to the effect that he had received instructions from Peking that all civil and criminal cases concerning the Russian population of Harbin were to be handed over to the Chinese Courts, and he had, therefore, deputed the bearer to carry same into execution. The president of the Court consulted with his col-
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