Committee said to-day that they had decided they would not force Bishop James Cannon Jr. to answer their questions relative to his expenditure of funds in his Virginia campaign against the presidential aspirations of ex-Governor Alfred L, Smith, 4
Confronted with the necessity for asking the Senate for additional me vestigating authority if they wished to push the matter against the Bishop's claim that he had acted solely as a private citizen, the com mittee decided such a course to ba inadvisable.
Bishop James Cannon Jr. again turned up to-day as a_ voluntary wittes before the Senate Lobbyist Committee, following his recal" citrance of several days ago when the declined to testify concerning poli expenditures, and told committee members that he had not intended to offend them.
He requested a ruling on the corns mittee's power to question thd political activities of private citizens, saying that while his attitude was not one of complete denial of such power, he wished a final and formal definition. The Bishop intininted that after such a ruling was made, he would proceed to testify.
The committee adjourned and is attempting to formulate such a rul-
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Russian railway which vans parallel to the Amur where several serious forthcoming—United Press. things Canadian tain will ve(TRANS-ATLANTIC FLIGHT stand the anxiety of the Soviet authorities, who ave unable to effect the immediate dispatch of a punitive expedition to Maritime Province cly the long and round-about Amur Railway. This route—from Kuenga in Trans-Baikalia to Harbarovsk is 2,000 vevsts long and the traffic invents almost exclude the possibility of a sudden. transportation of @ large military force.
The Kuo Min news agency reported on June 9 that the Muke den authorities formally refused the Soviet's request for permission to transport troops to the Maritime Province vid the Chinese Eastern Railway, This wes a strange request showing how desperate the Bolshe-vis are in their present difficulties.
On June 2 the administration of the Ursuri Railway telegraphed to Harbin, asking for the dispatch of a relief party to repair the damaged Tine between Vladivostok and Poeanichnain, Five hundred work: gen from the Chinese Eastern Rail way were sent on June 4. Scepties fare inclined to believe that this re~ Yiet party only confirms the reported. schemes of the Soviet to militarize the CER, and that actually it was a disguised military rein-foreement.
It is reported from Havbin that many communists fleeing from the Maritime Province are crossing the Manchurian borders and even se-atate units of the Red "soldiers prefer to be disarmed by the Chi nese authorities, than to participate in the defence of the Soviet in the Ussuri district. Such cases occurred on the Manchurian territory near Sanchakou, Mazioho and Mulin, According to a Soviet official spokesman, their version of ren~ sons, which led to the uprising of workmen and peasants is that the coal Soviet authorities in Harbarwere over-zealous vodueing the new "collectivist" system of
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