There was recently arrested on information received from the C.D. here a Russian of the name of who is stated to have played leading part in the Three Rivers Massacre last year, and a resideed of Hailar. The man had already, been arrested before by the Hailat police and sent here, where he waa out on bail, and his re-arrest fon account of further accusations against him, The CLD, have asked refugees from this district now residing in to come forward and mako larly statements. A Russian woman, that her husband was teacher, and that on the Lat) October a Red detachment under, the command of another man and after tie village taking men, The men were subsequent'g, all shot, with one exception, cut woman giving the man's name and saying he now resided at the ste tion Yakeshe, and would be able to corroborate the story she told.
Another witness also Russian' stated that in June last, he was invited to go marmot hunting. He accepted and was afterwards ar: rested by a Red Mongol detachment and sent under escort to Chita, where he was confined in the, GP.U, Here he learnt that his harvest' had been made on the initintive of Jushk, he was afterwardd sent to Habarovsk, and then to concentration camp on the Ussuri Railway, where he managed some months ' afterwards to make his Jescape into Chinese ferriter He deposed that Jushk was Bolshevik agent.
Jushk woo is a well-built man of 45, denies the charges against him. ' He admitted, however, that the served under Baron Ungern in 1918 and going with him to Mon-colin and at one time commanded, Mongolian cavalry detachment, He cays that afterwards be settled Jdown in Hailar, where he occupied himself with '¢rading and politics alone. He denies that lever went to the Three Rivers Dis trict or that he was in charge oh a Red irregular detachment. He admits being a Soviet citizen, have obtained his documents Chita where he went on business.
An echo of the Grand Hotel rob-ery which took place a couple of months back is the sudden dismissal of the hotel manager, he being temporarily succeeded by an employe of the Commercial Department of the railway. Tt will be remembered that as the safe in the manager's office was in bad onder, the valaibles_and money were' taken up every night to the manager's root, by his wife, who held the position fof book-keeper. One evening sha was confronted by an armed Chie nose, in the corridor, who pointed a revolver at her,' grabbed the satchel she had, and dashed throwh Jeho doors into the street making ood his escape. Nothing has beer recovered. Besides some $2,000 bes longing to the hotel was a packet off several thousand yen left in thy safe-keeping by one guests. This sum the CER. are compelled to replace and, the' railway management. resolved, {that the manager should be changed,
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