Moscow, Aug. 28.
Harbin newspapers inspired by the JJapanese military circles demand farther arrests of Soviet employees, including the higher executives of the CER. The "Harbin Nichi Nichi" reports that highest officials of the CER. will be arrested and that "the wave of arrests will roll from the eastern line to Harbin, where mass arrests will be effected.
The "Harbin Shimbun" states that "aM Soviet citizens must be expelled from Manchoukuo and the railway must be handed over to the centr administration of Manchoukuo Rail-
The Dairen "Mansiu Nippo" declares: "After the break of negotiations, the Manchurian side must use every means in their power to place the CER. in a diMeult position, and then the Soviet side will be forced to give up the CER"—Tass.
Blucher Blamed for Train Weeks Harbin, Aug. 20.
The "Harbin Times," a Japanese owned English-language newspaper, Tokyo, Aug. 31 Allogether 64 Soviet officials and employees of the Chinese Eastern Railway have been arrested by Manchoukuo police since the beginning of thie year, according to information received to-day by the Foreign Ofice from Gen. 'T. Hishikari, Japanese Ambassador in Changchun.
The official despatch adds that the majority of the Soviet arrests were made before August 13, when the GER. negotiations reached a dead According to the detail given, eighteen men, including eleven Soviet employees, were arrested between April 24 and June 29 by the Manchoukuo police and charged with "organizing a terroristic plot against the Japanese military mission at Pogranitehnaya. On March 28, ten Soviets, were arrested and charged with plotting against the Japanese and Manchoukuo authories. Since May nineteen Soviet citizens have been arrested for dis turbing peace and order, while May 27 and July 2 a total of 24 Soviet employees were arrested for interfering with trafic on the CER-Reuter.
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