Frost rie "Nosu-Ciiwa Dany or May 10, 1877
The "Friend of China" gives account of an interview willeh Cooke not the fault of the Japanese, who Bi Ph have been most considerate to' these tragic exiles, It is due to the march Soe of history.
Following the sale of the Chinese Th Eastern Mallway to J 22,000, well-paid Soviet railway employees who had patronized the Russian shops, cafes, restaurants, doctors and schools, packed up and departed for their own land. Out of 200. prominent foreign business men domiciled at Harbin, fewer than 40 still remain, The Japanese who have. replaced Russian railwaymen and foreign firms patronize their own countrymen and: Buy only Japanese goods. With the result that half the remaining Rus Sian population is unemployed, and nearly half the Russian shops and Businesses have gone bankrupt. Even the soup kitchen formerly "run -by British and Americans to help the: worst cases closed down last January Because there was no money left st Harbin to maintain it, leat hova mater" of arent consideration Pifeconsiders the opin even
the "cllise Government, and that ave the' "03 topo down the use oF they bose sot the: power, even if the the ar With reference to (the forthcoming ing the Hlatement of 'Sir Charles Dike that the inese lanes fe one' that fy be printed by their common Weobdcuts, oF By some. anole swith outraved surfaces, Mr Pat mes ave Seen primed the" best metallic movable typo. Earle in "the during "several "years "part With Hivenigont, century the te of movable Hundreds of Russians who had the cost. of a railway ticket have gone Tientsin, Shanghai, or back 0 the Soviet Union. For those that remain life is bleak indeed,
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