Tsingtao, Sept. 28 Phe Combined Japanese Fleet unde> the command of Admiral Nobumasa Suetsugu arrived here this morning from Port Arthur. Admiral Suetsugu and his staff will leave here this morning for Tsinan where he is expected to see Gen. Han Pu-chu, Governor of Shangtung. The Fleet, consisting of the flagship Kongo and more than seventy other vessels, wilt stay here until October 2—Rengo.
Moscow, Sept. 29.
Manchoukuo has agreed to pur. chase Soviet Russia's share in the Chinese Eastern Railway st @ price of, ¥. 140,000,000, "according to information obtained in diplomatic circles here to-day.
Several side issues not included in the primary agreement regarding the price remain to be settled. These Include the disposition of factories, mines, and other properties owned by the Chinese Eastern Railway, for which it is understood additional Sums are to be paid by Manchoukuo.
was learned to-day on 00d authority that the question of Soviet Tecognition of Manchoukuo did not arise during the conversations 1 garding the sale of the Russian ferest in the railway—United Press.
-R, to Control CER, Line Changchun, Sept. 29, 'The Manchoukuo Government is planning to merge all railways Operating in Manchuria into one vast System after the Chinese Eastern Railyway has been purchased from Russia, it was stated in Government circles' to-day.
The single Manchoukuo National Railway System, which will include the Chinese Eastern Railroad and the South Manchuria Railway og well as other lines, will be operated by a Government corporation. capitalized at ¥.800,000,000. This will include the Y.500,000,000 at which the $.M.
now capitalized, the Y.170,000,006 jurehase price of the CER, and an Adaltional 130,000,000 construction "The purpose of the amalgamation facials said, is to ce-ordinate the operations of this "backbone" of the ation and promote national indus tries in preparation for the 1935- emergency period—United Press.
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