Harbin, Jan, 17.
Success has attended the strike of the Chinese workmen in the Chinese Eastern Railway work shops who went out in protest against the summary dismissal by the Soviet manager of a largo mutiber of their new fellow work-earned that the Railies have agreed to. the immediate reinstatement of all' the Tt is expected. that the question will be brought up for discussion at the next meeting of the: Board of Directors, when it is hoped that a. satisfactory solution of the dispute will be devised.
Upwards of 70 "White" Russian staff members on the CER. were dismissed by the Railway Administration: yesterday.
At the request of the local Chamber of Commerce, free passage onthe line for all war refugees from the: border districts has been granted by the authorities. The first: batch of refugees numbering about, 4,000 men will, therefore, Teave here this week' for their homes.
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