In this situation, as is usual when the barbarians fall out amongst themselves, the Chinese are the winners. They are turning: strongly anti-Red but are only including anti-Bolshevism in their general anti-foreignism,—To gain time and think things over they released Ivanoff, but they are working up among themselves 9, claim to the al Railway which i, within a few weeks perhaps, force the Russians either to come in a show of force or get out altogether.
If the Japanese element in the situation " actually ints, $80 many believe, the i ferest. of the tuation is, enhanced by its come Hication, Unable to id Base of Agreement Mukden, Feb, 5.
The negotiations between Marshal Caang Tso-lin and the Soviet Consul-General here regarding the Chinese Eastern Railway isto ap= Fear to have come to a deadlock, owing to the vast di ews between the part the right to control the railway, well the reconstruction of the Bureau, of its management and of other organs belonging to the railway.
In view of the difieulty there is ing the Chinese Eastern oilway controversy, and as both ese and Soviet authorities, ick obstinately to their respec ginal assertion, it has now led to refer to Harbin all minute points at issue such as the method of transporting railway, guards or national defence forces, payment of railway charges, tke reconstruction of the adminis trative bureau of the Railway, the thority of the Director General the Railway, the appointment ard dismissal of employees, and the keeping of the Railway' safe. Eastern News Agency.
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