The case which has just been unearthed at a station on the eastern Vine of the Chinese Eastern Railway] is unbelievable but the facts have been verified by the police authorities. The daughter of a working having received a modern edi cation refused to accept the husband selected for her by her parents, and informed them that she had chosen a young man of good family who was equally well educated. The father stormed and raved tut all to no avail and finally find-1g that neither entreaties nor threats had any influence on his 17 year old daughter, he tied her up in sheet and buried her alive in the dead of the night. The Chinese authorities consider nothing can be done with the father as he was acting on principles formerly recognized by the nation.
A "Plant™ Alleged Towards the end of August of this year considerable excitement was caused in Harbin by a discovery of pamphlets calling upon the workmen of the Chinese Eastern Railway to strike, and at Srst this was put down to Soviet propaganda, a most absurd notion a: there was not the slightest, reason why the Soviet should want to cause trouble on the railway. Owing to a notice which was sent to the police by the Soviet Consul General, the police arrested a man named Hoshetf who had ordered the pamphets to be printed and it was then proved that he was not acting for any Soviet organization but was an emigrant and apparently working for some "White" organization for the purpose of causing friction between China and Soviet Russia, The trial of this man has just taken place and at yesterday's cr0ssexamination he declared that the documents seized at his house ha been given to him by three.2tec tives of the Chinese police force, a of Russian nationality. He further declared that these documents had been prepared for the purpose of being placed in the house of a cet tain person and thus implicating him in acts against the Chinese government according to Article 116 of the Penal Code.
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