Soviet Citizens Arrested and More Trains Attacked:
Further Charges Habarovsk, Aug. 15. According to reports received here, eastern line) started on the night of August 13. The nineteen arrest-fed Soviet citizens employed by the oilway include the. station-masters of the most important stations of Imienpo, Mataoshi, Hailin, and Pogranitehnay Well-informed circles in Harbin regard these arrests as the begin= ing of a widely-planned series of provocation with the object of proving that the countless bandit raids line of the CER. raids on stations and ments, kidnappings of employees by bandits, and cle outrageous "regime "to Which railway, employees and. their families ave been subjected in recent months, were organized by the employees themselves.
Reliable information is available showing that these arrests are only the beginning, that arrests of scores more Soviet employees are contem-lated, and that the Japanese mili tary are preparing to place the east-fern line of the CER. under law, in order to effect. its seizure.
All these steps form a development of the plan of widespread apcation of pressure "in. connection with the negotiations for the sale of the Chinese Eastern Railway: Tass.
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