Harbin, Jan. 27.
It is hard to realize that 11 whole days have elapsed since Comrade Ivanoff ordered the total suspension of transportation on the southern section of the C. E. R., yet. such is the case. By midnight tonight normal traffic will be totally. restored, for an order by the General' Manager has been issued that the moving of freight trains southward bound is to begin at! that hour, A crowded passenger' train left for Changehun shortly after noon to-day, by which most of the foreigners who have been held up in Harbin were able to travel by. And no doubt those who were not. able to find accommodation will leave by this evening train, as will the crowd of Chinese who failed to obtain tickets this morning.
Representatives from the Headquarters Staff who called on Comrade Ivanoff regarding the out of the agreement wi been concluded in Mukden, received the reply from the General Manager that he was now fully acquainted with the text and that it would be carried out to the letter at once.
Thus the statement of Ivanoff, immediately after he was released and which appeared in the Left. press, that he would not withdraw former orders about transportation was but an idle boast. This statement was allowed to pass the military. censors, who no doubt. wished to show to Soviet citizens the Comrade Ivanoft's words could not be relied on.
The Reds Climb Down The Soviet capitulation and the Chinese victory is complete, The release of Ivanoff is of no impc lance, and was only resorted to because ho would not come off the pedestal he himself had erected. Tu order that the whole incident may be forgotten as quickly ax possible and that friendly relations between the Chinese and Russian railwaymen may be resumed, the removal of the general manager ix expedient. He has been playing with polities, a thing he has no right to do in Chinese territory and when managing a purely commercial enterprise which ix jointly owned by China and Russia. The Chinese military authorities up here wore not to be bluffed, and, understand. ing thoroughly his kame, took a strong stand from which they refused to budge, even not heeding. the threats that Red troops would sent into the Railway area.
The Soviet Government have taken a step which no doubt they. will regret at their leasure. By. this recent action they have not only made the Chinese authorities hostile to them, but also the Chinese population in Manchuria.
The native population of the Three Eastern Provinees will never become Red and are likely to become very anti-red if pinpricks are given them as they have been late. Being so near to the Russian border, and rubbing shoulders with sorts and conditions of Russians, CER, unless they are members of one of the Unions and are recom~ mended by the Union they belong. to. The proclamations that were distributed during the conflict urging the workers to rise against the Chinese Military authorities likewise were conceived in these Unions. As all these things are well known to the Chinese auth ties, who are anxious to keep peace and order without which there can be no prosperity, hence their action.
Tt is hoped that the Chinese rail way officials will also in the same way look after the interests of the Russian railwaymen who have become Chinese citizens, Tt was openly averred that" Comrade Ivanoff had decided to get rid of these Russians wholesale, by the usual Bolshevik tactics of intimidation and force. With the closing of the Unions, however, their positions appear to be more' secure the less it is the duty of the Chinese oilway ofleale. to stand by them,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.