A goods train at kilometre 954 at 3 o'clock this morning ran off the me wing to the rails having been tampered with; 30 waggons we badly damaged, one greaser was killed and-the driver, fireman and two train conductors' seriously in-
At about midnight yesterday the Harbin Four Mill, the owner of which is Mr.
Yi Chang-hsin, gutted by fire, The damage is approximately 5 0 yea, The mili was insured with Japanese and Chinese companies.—Rewter, Soviet, Demonstrations Tokyo, Aug. 9.
A message from Harbin states that a resumption of the Russian aerial demonstrations at Pogranichraya and Manchuli has marked the revival of the tension between Russia and China, A message from Pogranichnaya reports that 38 Soviet planes carried out a demonstration over that city yesterday morning; while a report Feceived from Manchuli says that Russian planes have been flying over, that town, while about 20 Russian armoured-cars are patrolling so close to the border that they constitute a threat, During the past few days there have been frequent interruptions of the railway and the telephone services of the Chinese Eastern Railway. The Chinese blame these interruptions on Russian sabotage, A report from "Manchuli states that the sound of a heavy bombard. ment from the direction 'Matzievskaia has been heard since 7 o'clock this morning. 'The habitants of Manchuli, it is stated. are mach alarmed, but it is thought that the firing is' probably nothing more than a Soviet demonstration.
Threat of General Strike Aug. 10.
'A report from Manchuli states that the Chinese yesterday arrested and imprisoned 85 Soviet employees
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