The Archive · 1928

Conditions in Manchuria Reviewed

Sad Story of the Seized Railway Rolling Stock: Three Hundred and Fifty Derelict Locomotives Peking, Dee. 13

Me. Lenox Simpson (rurna 000 wagons were Manchuria in June, carried off 10 which Weale), who has just returned here from Manchuria, to-day handed Matement to Reuter's correspondent in regard to conditions in the Three tern Provinces.

The feller ing is a summary of the! troops inder is in very The long Hines of ste he seen on requiem in Manchuria and are likely: to remain so despite the vumwurs of a Fengtien advance. Her] relations with Japan are as geod as; could be expected in view of the tragic recurrence last summer} ki "of Mukden are fit only for the (Glarshal Chang Tso-tin's assassination}. There is no boycott. Japan pressed Marshal Caang for a settlement of the the same sum to repair enoches trucks. The same is true of four other railways in North China. Hence the complete restoration of, stabilized area is held by 20,000 Fengtien troops. this nor the Jehol area would be surngtze would require a fresh capital expenditure: of $8,000,000,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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