Apart from charges of corruption in the letting of contracts such as the grain elevator monopoly, which ar@ all old stories in Manchuria and are usually inspired by disgruntled competitors, the usual mode of assault upon the directors and the Russo-Asiatic Bank is to charge. them with trying to sell a controlling interest in the railway to the Japanese. Mr. Joffe, as quoted by Mr. Lenox Simpson in the local papers, has again raised the question of the ownership of the Chinese Eastern Railway shares by making the astonishing statement that the Russo-Asiatic Bank has no such shares except spent upon the railway but the|S@¥s that they have done huge sums appropriated for the|™M0re_ to preserve the railway than improvement of the railway zone the Inter-Allied Technical Board and fox the administration. It is which is ever suspicious but gives thought that during political no protection and.affords no help. troubles in Russia a portion of
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