The Archive · 1928

Joint Administration as the Best Way

Fos Harbin, No Harbin ly not w Chinese political news centre. The bull of the Russian population here thinks principally of the next meal. The prosperous Russians and lions have their interest upon big business—beans, wool, furs, machinery and So. wher something, spectacular happens in the Chinese the foreign community: finds itself' very much out of tox and can only speculate upon the meaning of it and hope that it means nothing" injurious to. trade.

imposcitle from this end therefore to tell exactly "what has happened to cause the abrupt moval of the three most ly. Chang Huan-hsian Administrator, hitherto' Mar.

Tnevugke the situation to a head we cannot know here, but the facts seem ta be that all the high local officials, in an effort to excuse themselves, accused one or more others of being in the pay of the Bolsheviks. The President of the Railway, La Jung-huan, accused Chang Huan-hsiang, the Civil Administrator, and. General Chin Jung-kuei, the Chief of Police, offering in the case of the latter to produce specific evidence showing the dates on which he had received money andthe amounts received, These persons, it wold seem, Te-talloted by denouncing the President of the railway ara Red tool and by offering to bring forward their "The local Chinese nothing of sis report. that supreme dictator, General Chin Jung-kuei, the chief of police, and Li Jung-huan, the President of the Chinese Eastern Railway, The exact significance can only earned in Mukden,

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