Marching Orders for Al Engaged by Chinese aes Our Own Consesronoewr Harbin, Jan, 10, Practically. no work hag been Jcarried on at the Railway Admi tration since this beginning of the Jeurrent year, for there have been six holidays out of. the ten days, whilst on the remaining four the game of "musical "chairs" was fall swing at the railway. Hund. reds of old Russian employees who were either dismissed or resigned when the conflict started. have re-tured to their did jobs and hundreds of others who had been hold. ing these jobs have either gone back to their previous posts or have been discharged. Practically all _em. ployees,* Russian and Chinese, who wore engaged by the Chinese acting manager have received their marching orders, It is therefore not very surprising that no work was possible, and that the corridors and offices of the Administration have been teeming with an excited and b.dbling public, and that every thing was topsy-turvey. By Monday next things will more or less have settled down and through service with Vladivostok made normal again. Actually freight trains have started to move in an casterty direction, and news is to hand that) much import cargo for Harbin, which has been held up for so long at Vladivostok, is now on its way here, The western line is being] quickly brought into working order and the mail train yesterday proceeded to Hailar, The armed Young Mongols have entirely disappeared from the rail. way area, and their conimanders have returned tg Urga.. The writer has on previous occasions pointed out that this Barga movement was directed by Unga, with Moscow, of] course, in the background, with the object of creating a buffer-state the conflict had continued. The Young Mongols of Barga are numerically far too weak to be able] to act solely on their own.
The damage done to the two bridges this side of Hailar, was] much less than reported, but Hailar station is a mass of ruins, whilst the town has suffered very much indeed, but principally from the rioting of the Chinese soldiery, who not only looted wholesale but set fire to many houses. The wool-washing plant of tio C.E.R. there has not suffered much, but there no wool to wash.
'The railway has now taken back, from the Chinese the telegraphs, the Central Library und the.meteorelogicd station, and in each instar fie former Russian' manager lih: been reinstated.. Another significant appointment is.that of a Russian ramager of the Sceauship Dept. f the C.ER., which ceased to exist
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