Thursday, the Chinese Eastern Railway, represented by N.S. Zephyroit and Y. J, Li, manager and sub-manager of the Shanghai commercial agency of the railway, brought a criminal action against Mr, V. A. Chilikis Russian "newspaper "Outro," for alleged libel, Me, Barraud and Messrs. Fleming and Allman appeared for the plaintiff railway, and Me. P, Premet defended, The article complained of was published on January 5, where in it was stated that the Russian Communists, having been ousted from the other organizations, had decid-agencies of C, E. R. as Com. rust agencies, und" that, for this purpose, they hud already sent funds and instructions to the ial agency at Shanghai pending the arrival of qualified Soviet specialists, In their petition, plaintitts state that the commercial agencies of the Chinese Eastern Railway act (particularly in Shanghai) under the strictest control of the Chinese authorities, who would not tolerate any political action by the agencies or by any Russian members of the agency or allow the agency to be used as a channel for the trans portation of merchandise of a prow hibited nature, The Shanghai commercial agency, the petition continues, confines ite self exclusively to" commercial transactions of a legal character, and it is not included in the order recently pronounced by the Chinese Government against Russian ore ganizations in. Shanghai Notwithstanding this, defendant, on January 5, 1028, in his news paper "Outro" ("The Morning"), published the malicious and defamaory statements complained of, the truth of which plaintiffs deny.
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