Harbin, Sept, 90.
To add to the many incidents which ave constantly occurring, between Soviet Russia and Manchou-Kuo, September 25, on the river Amur, the. Manchoukvo gunboat, Da-tung, was rammed by a Soviet steamer.
According to 9 telegraphic xeport from Sahkalian to the Ministry of Foreign Alfairs, the Manchoukuo gunboat flotilla was pro: ceeding down the Amur river at o'clock, in the morning when about 73 versts above Sabkali a white flag the Soviet' steamer should pass, it the rule that the. steamer coming down the current" should show von. which side of, it the Steamer coming up. should _pa: The Da-tung seeing that the Sovi steamer With the barges Were ing up on their port side, hung on: the white lag to port so that both Steamers. could continue their voyage in a direct line, However, the Soviet steamer did not give any return signal and when the Manchoukuo gunboat re-Peated the same there Was no Yeply, made. By, this me the jotilla and, the freight steame: were very close to each other and at a distance of not more than 30 meters the Soviet boat suddenly steered across the bows of the gun oat Da-tung, Seeing that this would cause collision the commander of the Ds tung also made a turn to the) epneaite side when it was supposed Peer the steamer would. do every: thing possible to oid. a. col However, the steamer he wheel a turn to the side making it impossible for the Da-tung to avoid a collision uunfess afe saltered her engines full speed astern. Owing to. force of the current it' was aul impossible for the Manchoukuo gunboat to stp In time amit an into one of the barges, which was being towed by the evict steamer.
As a result of the collision the repeller of the Da-tung anc fore part of the vessel were damaged. while the Soviet, barge hardly. hurt at all. The Da-tang was compelled to run ashore as the Gamage was very considerable and here the commander of the gun-Boat requested the captain of the Bee sator rata an a stag My. Rlsamer, sexeeeriny Mi, Sate Office called upon the Soviet Consul-General, Mr, Slovutzky, and en-cer ay ani formed the latter that such in-eidents would not be permitted in General stated that he would con but that he knew nothing, tion from Moscow, Tanaeff Liberated At last the Polish Mission has succeeded in rescuing the young boy Tanaef, the bandits having agreed on n. sum. of $2,500 as ransom money which was paid to thei yesterday morning and the boy, in-Stantly released. "He is in, such Bad state of health that it is im: possible to ask him any questions regarding the seven weeks that he has been detained in the bandit camp but there is no doubt that the was very badly treated and constantly beaten, especially when any representative. of the Polish Mission was gent to the camp to conduct The most extraordinary part of these kidnappings is that the bandits. have their camp within four miles of the ety of Harbin and have continued their outrages during the Swhole of the summer months, Ici napping robbing and even killing Peaceful citizens without any of the Bandit gang doing captured by the authorities, Te is evident that} these bandits have such an organisation that they are fully Sware of all the movements of the military and police forces and themselves. move about from place to place whenever any force ig sent out against them. Asan instance of Wow. well their, "intelligence" Service. is "maintained, it was sup-josed that no person' knew of the: fact that a railway cashier was carrying money in a car attached to the clit train which was wrecked a couple of days ago on The Southern line, and yet the bandits were fally aware of the fact and sent a strong gang to try and secure the cash, The Arrested Officials The fact that the chief accountant of the railway, Mr, Kubli, has been removed. from a room in Police headquarters to a prison cell has now been confirmed as the dinner Sent to him from his house yesterday was retarned from the police station with a brief remark that it could not published in the papers not be given to. him, Though
reg ting his removal to a cell, it is reported that he used some very] rong words when being examined by the Procurator and. for" this Feason Way ordered to. be £0 confined as punishment. The situation at the railway administration otices Femaing the same, "the General nese officials. who have. been in.
tanager not recognising the Chi structed to fill the vacant positions ud the Soviet' stof stating. that they cannot take instructions. from there officials on the ground that not. been. appointed. by} Manager, 4 of. the Minis Communications has gone. back to Hsinking by aeroplane and on. his torn from the capital 1 is prob-Able that further "action will taken to clear up the situation in the. railway Administration Ofices.
Neither one side nor the other desires to see any, conflict and,|S! therefore, it Is not likely that such will occur, The New Race Course 'To-day the new state hippodrome has been ofelally opened in Harbin, which has been in existence for pacing, the old race course more than 20 years, but has now been cut' up owing to barracks Raving been erected on part of it for Japanese and choukuo troops.
'The' new course is situated! farther out of town than the old one and is in the suburb of Oh Harbin, close to the aerodrome. A large sum of mani been spent on laying out an excellent course and a temporary pavillion has been erected for the present but, next year rand pavilion' will be constructed.
"Anew motor road has been laid' down from the centre of Harbin through what jg now known as Garden City, to the new hippodrome ani for the convenience of the public special buses are, being, Fan From different parts of the town 1d] direct to the gates.
"The committee consists of Ji ese and Manchoukuo citizens of whom are greatly interested in horses and this special kind sport. There will be six race days me opening week and over 150 are entered to run, some of being trotting and others} race horses. The entrance charge]
Tower than it ever has been in the ground is, only, 20, cen Harbin before ana it is expected that many more people will wend their way to the race course than they used to do in former years. There will be both a totalisator and sweep-stakes giving the public chance to invest their money either method, the lowest charge for a ticket being $1.
If the weather continues brilliant as it hag been for the pa: week there should be a large tendance at the new race course especially as two days are Chinese fautamn holidays when all business in the town will be suspended.
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