Negotiations for Through Running Broken Of Pukow Railway has again come to the fore)
a report from Tsinan that negotiations have broken off and that the Japanese authorities are refusing t treat with the Chief, Engineer, Mr, Alfred Hearne, who brought order out of chaos at Tsinan several weeks ago. and secured for the railway the better part of the rolling stock held there by the Japanese military.
However, the report finds no confirmation in Shanghsi though it known that for some time goods trains had been proceeding north from Tsinan over the Yellow River bridge, and for a shor: interval passenger trains were" similarly_ permitted a through life, though with certain reservations that were. not at all pleasing to the Chinese.
Specifically, the drawback was that the Japanese instituted a system of searching all passengers entering the 20 li aren about Tsinan and to those searched the 1 was made far more thorough than was thought necessary. There was A suggestion that the whole matter was brought about to embarrass the Chinese and it is believed here that, should a severance of relations have occurred there, the searching parties are doubtless the main root of the trouble.
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