'The Megan mines then paid an advance (0 the C.E.R, administration 23,000 kuo-hi considering' that after this preliminary payment of cash there would be no hindrance to further transactions. The sur-rise of the administration of the logan mines be imagined money that should have been paid! when the Soviet administrators de-them, for other purposes that would not bear close inquiry. How much finitely refused to sapply the mines Any spare parts and at the Jof truth there ly in this accusation, returned the 28,000 kuo-Perhaps only the officers them had been paid into the selves know. Up to the present railway, coffers. ftkese soldiers bad behaved very, Tt'is hardly necessary to say that Well, and, especially the officers, placed the mine and. the thave shown themselves very basi-ministration in a very critical Inesslike and onlerly. Their general, yuation, as the refusal to supply General Wang, has a good name, spare parts for the locomotives and on his firet_ arrival in Anhwei threatened to cut off the possibility lid quite effective work last. year transporting coals" from the bandit. suppression. mines to the Sungari.
Tt ix reported that the commun-But this did not conclude the blow ists have been at work among' the for a few days ago, by instructions soldiers and. sown the seeds _of revolt. Thin is the favourite of the CER. administration, the Tine running to the landing pier of method of warfare pursued by the They fa the Began mines in Harbin was taken up, this line being laid along the shore opposite the main street "S of Harbin. hole disyreceful alfaix of the: mutiny. there was one incident hows there "are some. men wth loyalty and. undying courage. One officer in the local "militia, named Feng, was caught by. some fof the looting government, soldiers and ordered to give up his gun. Instead of doing so he emptied his gun in trying to "scare off his Jattackers and even then refused to ikive it up. His determined—resistance so angered the Government looters that they took his gun Jaway and then shot him to death, 'The people now begin to fee! proud of their local militia because' they ave stood up to the regular army land defied them to loot the town.
What othe ordinary people think of this Kind of thing?' Here fare the military who are supposed. to Fight the bandits turning on. the ity to loot and: kill. Several pei fectly- innocent bystanders were lad and, fame "others. "injure for the Government "army? The By this extraordinary action on the part of the railway, the udministration of the mines is practically ring. their {nits turn will cause a. further aggravation of the coal etisis anda Drobable rise in the prices nf coal The extraordinary action of the saministraion of The: salwey Fogards the" Began collieries. attracting much attention in Harbin, especially as at the moment coal prices are rising and stocks are Tess Than they were at thie time last year. The only favourable point as Tegards the public. is that the weather cantinges to keep warm and Tis not necessary" to. heat" the Houser rix much ae usual in Novem ber. eeaptéd order of tings that lo expect i; it ix a part of the
saldters will loot and kill because they think that is the kind of me the Government have in the army.
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