Although the Soviet has climbed down to a certain extent in order recommence the Mukden Conference, the Chinese intend shortly ito. make the position of the Soviet delegation vastly more dificult, They will demand that some 43 heads of the various Chinese Eastern Railway departments be dismissed for ducting Soviet propaganda on Chinese soil.
The Chinese claim that those mea have all been holding dual positions, jie:, as railway employees and propagandists. This recalls to ming. the persistent, statements in corral Russian and Chinese circles that aft\_" the so-called Soviet trade agents and commissioners are communistic propagandists under another designation. It is freely said hero that in agreeing to accord these agents and Commistioners the privilege diplomatic extraterritoriality, the Japanese Foreign Office has made very serious mistake, as such Jegents and commissioners on Chi-rex soil have not scrupled to conduct communistic propaganda to the detriment of the State.
'A remarkable feature of the, situ: ation now is the ever-growing native sentiment in Manchuria against [Soviet Russia, At one time, the [Soviet was so strong that it practically dictated to Mukden what the Manchurians should or should not do, They were responsible for ithe arrest of the former Russian executives of the C.E.R., who were promptly gaoled and held without a trial for weeks on end merely to satisfy the Soviet authorities. To"
these same executives hold important positions with the Chinese, whereas, per contra, the Sovieb chiefs of the railway are in very bad odour.
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