Tokyo, Jan. 28.
After a series of meetings the Japan and) Manchuria transport parley, which is new in session here, reported, practically to have reached a deadlock, owing to the firm' stand of the' delegates representing the- Chinese astern Railway and the Ussuri Railway.
The Japanese delegates demand equalisation of freight rates on the southern and eastern sections of the /Chinese Eastern aystem but the delegates of that railway and those of the Ussuri railway refuse to recognize the necessity for such action.
At to-day's meeting of the Japan and Manchuria transport conference the Japanese delegates submitted a compromise plan regarding freight rates but the C.E.R. and Ussuri railway delegates refused zo cen-sider it, The chairman of the conference, thereupon declared the meeting suspended and it is believed that no
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