Harbin, Oct. 2.
Every time the papers announce that the Japanese troops have cleared 4 certain district of band thing new. always" occurs the situation as bad nd_some even worse" than' it was. before, The eastern line was suspended. on Wpril "20" and "ocensionally a. train distance between, Harbin and. the been run a certain part of
frontier, but so far not' one' train diag been "tun" right "through "to Vindivostock since' that date, the system of guerilla warfare adopted by. the' Chinese' former" soldiers Bling or "auch. nature. tha he their tactics, fapanete are nable to cope. wit 'The south line has also suffered, but there the traffic has hardly doen suspended, "excepting during the "floods, but' the" attacks made by bandits or Chinese soldiers have ed used greater disasters than onthe eastern line, By means of attaching three armoured ears to ach train, part Chinese and part Tapanese, the traffic on this line now restimed according to the new schedule which provides. for pas: Senger trains running daring the day only, though goods trains run! at night without let or hindrance, Passengers on the trains state that bandits can be tance from the line ly stray hots are fired as the presses pass but no further tempt has been made to cut the railway track, With "the subsiding of the Mood, the trains on the western line wore started again and-ti of relief from the commercial world, who thought that at last communi gation had been restored with Europe, but their hopes were doomed to failure, as suddenly a rebellion rel resting all persons con-at-Manchuli and Hailar, the
nected with the Manchukuo government, whether Chinese, Japanese or Russian.
So rapid w the action of this now movement. that within day the whole of the railway line yom Manchuli to. Fuliand fell into thole hands, the Machukuo flag was torn fdown''at all the arations andthe fig "alsod. Telegraph and telephone lines having been cut. as difleute to get any information the aims of this new move iment, but it aeon Became. evident That it was directed against: Manchu.
The rebels apparently had quarrel wi railway. ass, foreigners arriving ties, permitted trains to, proceeding learned that the soldiers were quite courteous to the travellers, Dut made a very strict for any person connected Manchukuo government. of indiscriminate kill ese citizens were contradicted and 4 very little, as all accounts the statement that the rioting at Manchuli did not last' more than two hours.
Yesterday morning the reached Harbin that the bandit army was surrounding Tsitsihar and as the telephone and telegraph lines to Tsitsihar station were suddenly cut off, the C.E.R. general manager 'Mr, Rudyi, issued orders that the train from' Harbin to Tsitsihar was not to run. until further orders, thus the western line traffic was once more suspended.
The Japan Military. Mission this morning state that ordinary Jap exe ci in Manchuli, Hailar and Tsitsihar have not been hurt, thas contradicting all the wild stories of killing and. looting pub-fished. in. the local Russian. press.
special radio. message of the Rengo. telegraph agency. also confirms this fact, thus proving that the aims. of the rioters or rebels, fare not for the purpose of hurting ordinary. citizens, but have for their object some other' motive, probably, as reported, the forma: Fon of another State with the support of Soviet Russia. similar to That of Manchukuo with the support "of Japan, 'The Manchukuo Castoms at' Manchuli has been stopped and at present is is not known What is doing there, Ca the east-em line the Mfanchukuo authorities have "established a new customs point at Echo station as the fron-Tier. station customs at Pogvanichhaya is still in the hands of the Chinese Maritime Customs,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.