News has. reached Harbin that Mr. E. Lenox Simpson, editor of question 0! rights of the! The immediate revision of the the Bilingual "Harbin Herald" was manager and his Manchoukuo taken off the train at Manchuli assistant would make such actions station, just as he was departing as the seizure of locomotives and for Harbin, it being stated that he freight cars by one. side' only' had not received any visa to visit absolutely impossible and if these that part of the country. Passengers. who arrived in Harbin by the revised earlier, through train reported the incident, but were unable to give any ex-way should be managed jointly' noi planation or the reasons for only in words but in actual facts, detention, "In the Mukden "agreement. of Te was fully expected that he 1924 there is a clause which states would arrive by the next train from Manchuli but as. this train. arrived that the competence of the assistant manager of the railway must be without him, are now!
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and safety, more especially as hi being made Gs to his whereabouts fand that such regulations should be satisfactory to both sides. But office has not had any communica curiously enough this has never tion from hin since ti day before been done, as the only rights that hig. detention. the" assistant manager' has are ite Intely visited the eastern line those "confirmed by' the, Board yon of the railway and wrote a number the May 9, 1923, before the signing articles on the general situation the Mukden agreement. 'The has now been. on the western former administration of the. rai line for ten days sending in notes way did. not take the rouble. to of his trip to his paper' by every! change the regulations notwith-train.
Standing that there was a. clause 'The general opinion in Harbin in the Mukden agreement to that that there is not likely' to be any effect. veal clash between "Soviet Russia At the present moment all and Manchoukuo, the shouting portant matters are in the hands certain local newspapers being con-The general manager of the railway]
siderably exaggerated in the foreign loa, Seve tian and "lis Trafic Figure Apr. 27.
The figures for the first half of the export. season have just. been published by the C.E.R." and a cording to this the total quantity Of goods carried from October 1, Baminintration in" based.
1931, to April 1, 1932, was 1,924,006 therefore, quite clear that such a metric" tons, this situation' is) not normal and must classes of foods of commercial ser' be revised. fice and m itary. The total quantity The Manchoukuo assistant, mana-for the first half of the previous ger of the railway has only" five 1931-82 season was 2465, 3,000 tons, Separtments under his control. from wh it will be Seen that the railway carried only 78 per cent.
Assistant Manager's Protest the quantity carried by it las On taking up the position of assistant manager of the C-E-R. Mr.
1 goods only, the results however, the figures for Yi Lichun put forward a project for ihe revision of Tights. of} unfavourable, as the the Manchoukuo assistant manager, Dut his project has not yet been discussed. 'The Manchoukuo assist. ant_manager pointed ong that, according to the arrangeméhts of the administration, documents. that. are being sent to the Board should be ports have taken this. year, as in showa to him' beforehand, " but the first half of the 1931-32 season, there were 796,000 tons shipped many documents have been f0r-warded to the Board without being] via Pogranichnaya, these "goods presented tothe Manchoukvo being exported through the port of assistant manager and he ¢hly Vladivostok, only. 169,000} Tearned of them post factum. Mr. tons this half yes Further last Yi Li-chun stated that the Board year there. were many "beans had no right to accept these' docu-Shipped across Sibes via. Manchuli the total for. th rat abe months Reem and should have, sent them ok for signature, but the reply to! of 1991-32 reaching 147,000 tons While for the same period in rotesis was that this "would: be present season the figure "just the opinion of Mr. Yi Li-shun Fegehes, 50,000 tone the whole of the administration of urning to the shipments the railway should be conducted] Kuanchengtze which are exported equally, and there should be a through Dairen, it is seen that for parity "on all questions of "imthe first six motiths of 1981-22 there portance expecially those of finance. it is only when the administration route while in the present half year were 068,000 tone shipped by thi of the railway has been put on a there were 686,000 tons, this figure basis which enables the Manchoukuo showing an. increase even though! ide to have as much power as the ihe total shipments for the first six Soviet side, that it will be po non tha were reduced by 577,000 fo carry on business in a. satis-ton The above figures distinctly prove] factory manner.
'The above interview having been that' the "eastern route has" lost seen by many railway servants. who practically the whole of its trafic In'"goods from' the 'CE.R. and, ted the Wherefore, the loss to the Soviet was pointed out that Mr.
railway, must. be enormous. chun, after being appointed to his cumstances the GER. as position, was often away for many days taking trips to Dairen, Ki entirely lost its former posi ition fand Changchun, and that on many. and as there is no doubt that both occasions the documents had to be Manchoukuo and Japan will do sent to the Board with the general their utmost to have their ship-manager's ments made through Japanese and 'Manchoukuo assistant manager was Korean railways, the value of the not in Harbin. reduced, CER. must be' very considerably} 'Though the tension seem to be 'As the exports via Vladivostok' lessened urn fell, the imports also decreased to as regards railway mi such an extent that 95 per cent. ing to-day that a deadlock all imports for Northern Man-has been arrived at as neither the choukuo nor the Soviet side churia were brought in via Kuanchengtze. have any intention of giving way. There seems to be.no doubt that The figures which are given the "Soviet will not return the above are likely to be even. larger! locomotives and, "therefore, the in favour of the S.M.R. during the second six months of 1931-32 as the question resolves itself moment into what the eastern route is still very much in the hands of bandits, and exporters; authorities aye not at all inclined to use turned by May 12.
The only way out of the matter Reforming the Railway be that of the purchase of Mr. ¥i Li-chun, Assistant of the C.E.R., yesterday gave interview to members of the Russian press expressing his opinions on the this pla present © railway" situation. - He Stated that as the Soviet. side of Jews Wax Indignant the railway have taken the loeomotives and freight ears without consulting the Manchoukuo side they Soci ust tetum them immediately and nly. then, would. it be poseitie. to being shocked and deeply perturbed "The, Society scan other questions which by the information received here Forehermore. he stated it was present in dispute, concerning the continuous acts of Violence, law and. derision absolutely necessary to revise the carried out in Germany against our way aod Ins Mlanciukoe_sesistant Fights of the manager of the. rail brother Jews, energetically and every way, protest together wi as" the manner is which the all the world Jews against unpre-
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