Harbin, April 15.
Another bomb, figuratively of course, has been exploded.among. the railwaymen of the C. E. R. by the publishing of Order No, 94 luy_the General Manager.
Briefly this order states that no employee, who has neither Soviet not Chinese passport, can remain in the C. E.R. after June 1. According to. the local Russian newspapers the number of present employees affected by this order ranges from 1,000 to 4,000; in all probability over 2,000 willie forced to resign before that date, and it is unlikely that any can hang back, for all chiefs of departments have received orders to prepare without delay lists of all under them giving full details as to what passport they have There fare quite a number of Poles in the Railway, owing to the fact that Tsarist days it was difficult for them to secure positions in Russia proper; also Latvians, Esthonians and Letts, all whom now that their countries have become independent, have taken out, national passports and can therefore no longer remain in railway employ.
Tr cannot be said that the general manager has not the right to issue this order for, according to the new Sino-Russian Agreement and the Mukden-Soviet Agreement, distinctly stated that only. subjects of the two States signing the agreement shall be allowed to ibe employed in the railway, and it vise must be admitted that all railway employees were advised by the Soviet_new Railway Management when it lock over in October last to apply for Soviet passports. in case they had not done so already.
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