Business Strangled by Delay Over CER. Crisis Frox Our Own Connssronpext Harbin, Sept. 21.
The triangular position in Man-oturia still remains unchanged, everything still in the air. The Interested parties appear to be} playing a game of poker instead of! efting down to solid business. Low different things would have been Chang Tso-lin had still been slive. Thanks to him and his henchman, Manchuria is what is to-day, notwithstanding his faults, he was ind is still considered by all Chineae ioneers of this Northern Territory fas their uncrowned king.
Just before the Autumn Festival, the settlement day for Chinese! which the Nanking Government} endeavours unsuccessfully to do away with, the leading Chinese merchants of Northern Manchuria met together at the leading Russian hostelry at a luncheon. All have been hit and hit hard, by the CE.R. crisis, for business is dead for the Chinese as much as it is for the Russians or other foreigners in the railway ares, nese firms located in Chibli, Shensi, Shansi, Shantuhg, in the north, with the central provinces starting' with!
Ghikciang, with the southern provinces ending with Kuangtung evuld tot be settled, simply because the cargo received remains in godowns. They in a boty appealed the Civil Administrator of the Special Area, Chang Ching-hu, one the late Marshal's "sworn rother" "Tis answer is short and to the point, "it you have the goods, vwe will return then and it wil not cosh you a penny." Thus it was that the Mid-Autumn settlement was solved from % local point of view and the holiday celebrated" in the ood old style, Manchuria's Better Understanding, It_is but natural, that the Manchurian authorities, being in closer contact with Russians, should understand the solution of the present problem hotier than Nanking, even though the latter are more skilled in. international law. The former ave, for an'United China but at the same' time they are against the Central Government deciding for themselves, since Nanking has no intimate Inowledge of the actual trend of events, Its members hive never been in the inner Manchurian circle, which has always held its head high, Undoubtedly Muiden is being hard hit by the delay of a solution It must pry forthe upkeep of the huge army which is now guarding the Manchurian boundary lines, and the already pinches as regards the inward ow of expected revenue. The gentry, farmers and merchants, who for years past have had no other annoyances than from Hunghutze whom they now Know how to handle are being hit and are no longer remaining quiet seeing their economic equilibrium has been seriously affected, If my inside Chinese information is correct, Chinese protests from all parts) of Manchuria pouring into Mukden, urging the jung Marshal to insist that the Nanking Government. should agree a Chinese-Soviet Conference taking place at once,
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