Mukden, Nov. 6.
Local authorities are expecting another attack by the Soviet troops to-morrow which is known to be: Bolshevik anniversary day. The police and garrison. authorities are taking extra precautionary measures to suppress any attempt on part of Chinese communists to me trouble.
'A report received by the Chinese Eastern Railway Administration says that on the night of the 4t', Soviet agents set fire to. the arracks of the Chinese Railway gnaws Hsuanchengpio. The fire was, however, extinguished before much damage'was done. The report adds that since the Ist inst, minor' disturbances of all kinds, believed' to have been inst agents, have along the Chinese Eastern' Railway Line.
'The authorities are understood. to have received a telegram: from' the german Consul at Harbin. sigges:- ing that in view of the terrible plight of the. Chinese prisoners now Under detention by. the Soviet anthorities in Siberia, 2000 suits of cotton paided gowns be prepared [for distribution among them, throu' the German consuls in Siberia.—
Kuo Min, Tokyo, Nov. 6.
message from Harbin to Rengo sates that martial law.was proclaim ed to-day in. the district of Harbi as x precaution against a rumoured Conmunist up-rising for November which is the anniversary of; the
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