Habarovsk is said to be half dead. Most of the shops and stores are closed. Cates and restaurants are open, but few people apart from soldiers are to be seen in them. The streets are usually deserted and the occasional pedestrians to be seen on them are mostly soldiers wearing the badge of the Far Eastern Republican Army. Colonel Tsome is head of the Japanese military mission im Habarovsk and_ since his arrival there General Eiche of the sth Soviet Army, commanding the military forces of the Chita Government, has visited him with the object. of endeavouring to establish more friendly relations between the Japanese troops and the Amur district army. With this end in view, Eiche has made various changes in the personnel of the staff of that army, incurring by so doing the enmity of the latter, which regards him as a foreigner who has no business to meddle in its domestic affairs.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.