What actually happened was that after a period in which no justice worth mentioning was administered in the Chinese Eastern Railway Zone Chinese courts undertook dispose of © accumulated Russian cases and to try all new civil and criminal cases according to Chinese procedure, conducted in the Chinese language, and to have the documents pertaining to all pending eases, which constituted an enormous dossier, translated into Chinese. The Russian Courts were closed by Chinese soldiery October 1, 1920. The Russian guards on the Chinese astern Railway were disarmed in March, 1920, and the duty of protecting the line taken over by Chinese soldiery, since when there have been 60) reported eases of conflict between Russian railway employees and -Chinese officers and soldiers. Between March 19 and April 8, the Russian militia, so-called, was replaced by Chinese soldiery and police and the
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