Of the Tansan was actually seized by Soviet marines "inthe Fiver mouth exclusive of the one flowing along. the Chinese "bank, then the Soviet authorities have done 30 on the basis of notice given byrne some five os years ago Jat "Chinese. boats cond use the tone channe} only.
Beyond this channel there {sland Which' the Manchoukuo. an thorities claim "is their property, whereas, the "Soviet state' that, it to them and itis reported that they have erected a "Custom House and. small fort on this As' the other mouths, have that the Soviet authorities their guards customs on the large slond, Sehich they can distinctly" see all troft coming in or going out of the Gesu.
Tu this cave the matter goes back to the fact that the Chinese did possess. steamships until after the Russian Revolution broke out, and, therefore, there. are, many, moot points reyanding Hon of the Amur-and the Ussuri Mhich have never "been properly As year after. year. the umber of Chinese owned craft frenses, more difficulties arise the larger type vessels cannot past Through water "where a Chinese Junk wag able to navigate.
The Manchoukuo Foreign Ofice representative at Harbin has lared. that the Government will five every meagre even to. extreme feaseds but until fall details of the fo get. the ten Russians
whole' matter have been received about their release.
both sides ft is useless to talk Why the guards of one steamer only have been taken by the Sov authorities is a mystery and points: te. the fact that there must have een some special reason why these men were arrested News have now come to hand regarding the names of the captured nen, from which it seems that one isthe son of a well-known local doctor, who. went" under another ame, and another is-Count Ukhfama, ho, isnot an army, an and. would har on. such a rage ae. a steamer-gourd. This List of names published in the Tocal press makes" the matter more Inyaterious as explanations "will have to be found for such travelling as guards on a steamers, Miss M. Evane and Misa. Munday, heroines of the rescue drama at" Karatea shown with the water melons presented to them.
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