Harbin, Sept. 14, Charges that the Manchoukuo au~ thorities were actuated by political motives in arresting large numbers of Soviet employees of the Chinese Eastern Railway were again denied here to-day by a spokesman for the Manchoukuo Department of Foreign Affairs, Detention of these Soviet citizens, the official asserted, was justified in the face of "incontrovertible evidence that Soviet employees were involved in the attacks on the trains."
In arresting these men and women, the spokesman stated, the Manchoukuo government was "merely exercising its judicial rights"—Rengo.
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