Harbin, Oct. 22.
The situation on the Chinese Eastern Railway has improved on stern line as trains are again to make their way through to Hengtaohotze, but whether this will continue for.a long time, has yet to be seen, The general manager has instructions for a train to through to the frontier station, if "possible, but it is much more Tikely that the passengers will have to change cars.at Hailin, which is the extreme point to which Japanese troops go, and beyond this the railway line' and stations are in the hands of the old Kirin troops who Keep order in the district.
foods trains are permitted to run through but there seems to be fan objection to any passenger train,
the passengers might japanese the" Chinese fearing that some alsgutse. It the trafic on this Une could be started on a safe basis, would be a great help to the fade, as European rails could then yon te western Tine there is Title deliver is route.
movement, though the Japanese have now' cleared, the railway Tine bandits as far as Ts Station, though this has not been effected without considerable, fight-fug. the town of Anta having changed hands. three times within fa fortnight, "The pontoon bridge Beyond Taitsihar having been swept away and one of the arches of fteel railway bridge across the NNonni having been damaged, the only way for Japanese troops to go farther west, is to eross the Nonni river in boats, which they have don And. encamped at Pullardi. The force is not yet however strong enough to. make any further advance, and even if it was, it is very doubtful whether such advance should be made, as the rebels. hold 2 great. advantage, the Hingan funnel being in thei hands. From the heights of the Hingan Range they can fire down steadily on any
blowing up the advancing Japanese troops, finally tund if they 20 eerie any further advance on the att at the dapanose, ould cata The possible, complete. suspension nom Se europe andthe Tost the entire country beyond the Hingan, The rebel leaders are not fal Inclined to talk of peace and cat. "present. bringing. in. arms amumtnition from the" south, Strengthening. their positions and throwing up new _fortifeations. The situation is extremely compli-fated" and the winter coming on, 2 Mteustomed. to the, severe cold, favour of the Febels, Who
we Japanese are. not.
More than two month have elaps-since the Post Oflce was taken over by the Manchulauo authorities, there does not seem to be ruck Enprovemens.in the ervey chaos Seluning everywhere, The prevent Stu of the. Harbin Post" Office seem to know nothing about the Sumoss inv any way, the mistakes Nich ave beng mate daily being Minply appalling. "There have bee Ruropean malis received here for Toast four weeks, while. the American mails ave arriving at odd Mails from the south of China are hopeless and even those Daten to post on to Hasbin swith Japanese stamps do not arrive The newts of the department, who are Japanese, no doubt. know their Business ut they have to deal sith acre of servants who kw little Se'nothing, excepting that they Read Chinese, if they ave. Russians Russian if they are Chinese.
"Ar showing what sort of a star aus een collected, it has mow deen covered that the Post. Ofiee, has freon defrauded of some 3,000 dalars Goring. the: past monthe. Am. order Moe Published. that. all' old stamps Could" be exchanged. for new ones, Sindone Russian servant with three Chinese, "then "conceived. a. clever lam 'They took the "eld stamps Reveivedy. them and passed. ther bul to trends to bring it. again, thay defrauded the Post Off etuthe above amount," The extraordinary" point 'a, how was it that the audits and' Reads' of depart= ruts dit not see that single per= fons. were exchanging hundreds of Gtbllars of postage stamps. Surely here aye. no fins that. Keep hu Sheds of dollars worth of stamps in heir own sates, yet the Post Ofte afta "permed serta fraud to the sensation of the week has played om them.
Leen the arrest of several of the star of the Japanese Consulate re-Eistered Russian newspaper, the "Harbin Tres," including the editor Mx. Boris Shiloff. This arrest of journalists was made by the [Japanese gendarmerie and not by the Manctiukuo police, from which seems that the Japanese police Ihave the right to arrest. Russians irrespective of this being the State fof Manchukuo and not Japanese territory." The reason of the arres's of these Japanese protected. joar-Inalists has not been given out, but they are all. free again, and' last right celebrated their freedom by having a great supper at a popular restaurant. Most of them were 0 durance vile for five days and were severely questioned on. many, matters of "political interest. These arrests have done much to dampen the ardour of the Russian emigrant population, who now find that the Japanese ire actually arresting the very men who have been working for declarations by the Japanese military commanders in Harbin that [the best of relations exist between Japan and Soviet Russia are not all pleasing to the crowd of [Russians who welcomed the Japan-th the Russian tri-colour request of the Consular Body that a volunteer force should be formed to guard the foreign residents, has been refused by the authorities, who state that they are quite capable of protecting all ers, and ask the consuls to send in a list of the names and addresses of all those foreigners who should be well guarded. This the consuls are not likely to Ido, og there are none of the managers of the large foreign concerns who are particularly anxious to have their names and addresses given somewhere. where the bandits can get them easily, and the placing of extra guards ae their houses would only prove that such houses were well worth the attention fof the bandit kidnappers. However the Police have now permitted a Special Guild of Watchmen to be fanised, whose services inay be pald for' by house owners flat tenants, but such watchmen will be permitted to guard property at night only.
The man named Georgi Sofronoft who was arrested in connection with the murder of Mrs. Woodruff, and who has been identified by the chauffeur of Mr. Napier's car in be points to the fact that he was the man who fired the fatal shot. His previous history is a bad one, the leader of a zang of bandits at Hailar, well known to the police in that district. The Consular inquest has been concluded and a copy sent to the police a thorities. In this document. much blame is attached to the conduct of the police at the time of the attack, it being pointed out that two police: men were sitting in a shop when the car passed with the bandits hang-on to the running board, H. 31 Consul, Inv. C. F, Garstin, has called on the' two men' who ran down one of the bandits and whose bravery was the means of finding out the other men. He expressed the admiration of the whole of the British community "at, their Jcourage and thanked them for their services. A subscription list has been "opened to present them with a sum of money and it is expected that a consi able amount will be collected, the first day's subscriptions amounted to over yen, 500.
Nov. 1
The Harbin Post Office announces the opening "of a number. of air postal routes this eck, these ined Ing. air mail to Changehung, Kirin, Milken, "Seoul and Tokyo, and 'Tsitsihar and Keshan on the west. 'The air services will be a great boon it'fhey work all right but snow-Storms and severe frost' must interfere with them considerably during the winter.
Every day the weather ig getting colder and the position of the Japa hose troops becomes worse as, they fare not accustomed to severe frost= fand "heavy snowstorms, while the [Chinese have lived years in the wilds of the country and do not fear the everest. weather. Where the insarents are getting their arms and fmuniton from is 3. panic, et tine and are noe. shotty like. they seem to be getting more all the
were last year when General Chan-shan Was in command. The situation must come to a head very quickly now and probably within a month will be cleared up, the danger however being that the insurgents may cut up rough, and blow up the
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