The Archive · 1930

Repair Work on CER

Mukden, Dee. 80

The Northeastern Political Affairs Committee announced today the appointment of Mr. Mo Teh-bui as the Director-General of the Chinese Eastern Railway Administration in succession to Mr, Lu Yuhg-huan, resigned.

'A. special engineering corps has been organized to repair the tracks destroyed by the Soviet troops, 50 that through communications between Europe and the Far East vid the CER. and the Trans-Siberian Railway may be restored during the first part of January.

Tt is estimated that a total of about 5400 Soviet staff members, as compared with 4,600 Chinese ars serving on the C.E.R, But with the appointment of the new Soviet manager ang assistant-manager, good many more Soviet staff mem: bers, who had been dismissed by the Chinese authorities, will probably be re-instated, and, therefore, Soviet staff members on the Railway will outnumber the Chinese considerably,—Kuo Min.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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