As' to the amount damage done to the railway this is infinite si mal and is not surprising when some thousands of troops returning from the fighting round Hsinminting are wai tran sported to th railwaymen have suffered but Hittle, thanks to the strict protec: tion given them by military officers and the Railway Poli Two or three men were beat not badly, by a crowd of angry passengers at Harbin Station who wished the train to be. started, whilst soldiers acted the same at Kuangehengtze station. The as: sistant station master and a points man (Chinese) were arrested by: the commander -of the military train at one of the small stations between Changehun and Harbin because they prevented the t from going ahead, but they were not treated but' brought under guard in the same train to here handed over to Military Staff. Orders were given that another armoured train on the Eastern section of the Railway be brought to Harbin, to be ready for even:
ral.as titis train was not given right of way by the 1 came along in the charge passes. No objection was made this time to this, no doubt the general manager did not want this crowd to again visit his house or get out of hand, fearing the consequences.
Another meeting of the. Consuls took place yesterday at the Japanese Consul General's residence, he being senior consul. There were present the representatives of Great Britain, United States, France, Italy, Ge many, Denmark and Sweden, and invitations had been sent out to the Civil Administrator General Chang Huang-hsiang,—who is also Chief vf the Reilway Guards, and to Comrade Ivanof to attend, and in the event of this being inconvenient 2 request was made that they should send deputies to explain the situation.
General Chang, accompanied by the assistant Commissioner Foreign Affairs Mr. Li-Shou-len, who is a Russian scholar, duly turnup but not so with Ivanoff, The latter could not "be:-found either, at his private residence or at. the Railway Administration, nor did hho bother to send his excuses or deputy. At this meeting the [Civil Administrator explained fully the situation, stating that if the altitude of "the General Manager did not change, the military authorities themselves would take steps to resume the railway tranportation on the Southern Line.
The Quorum Difficulty The Railway Board has actually rot met for the past two days, for there between the Chinese representatives,—the taking the part of the General Manager. Thus no resolution can be pasted even if a quorum meets for it requires yeven direc: tors to pass stich a resolution and the total number of Chinese representatives is five, the same as the Russians. Tt is'this continual deuillock and strife between the members of the Bourd, that gives the General Manager of the Railway, the opportunity to. more tually fayed entirely by the Russians, even though this is mot in. accordance with the Agreement, and the Chin-exe are more or less powerless.
therefore imperative that if thie state of affairs is to be changed, China must insist that certain of tae Railway Regulations and Rules are changed wi Actually: at the Railway Station at Harbin everything has been very of the time, and not, withstanding that the rooms ete. ure crowded with pas-though slowly ex railwaymen, who hi ese subjects are being dismissed from service, for some petty cuse or the other, and as often as sengers wanting to go away. Much] not "the 'Chinese' do.nothing—in it is due to the Railway Police their behalf. As often us not it in keeping order without the crowd] is the powerful Soviet Union of being roughly handled in any way, Railway workers who insist ppaeifie methods being employed by' their dismissal, and they are inthe former. Some thousand persons variably replaced by members of were transported by yesterday's this Union, for no Russian now train, which had its com: 1 pliment of railway gui who ay usual only had their military who does not belong to the Union can hope to get a billet in the)
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