Peiping, May 1.
Allegations levelled by Chinese newspapermen's organizations Shanghai, Nanking, Hankow apd Canton that the party of local Chinese newspapermen who returned to Pel-ping yesterday morning from a four-week tour of Japan had rreeelved BY ancial assistance from Japan or had visited, Manchoukuo, wore emphatic ally denied' by MY, Chin Ta-Chih, Teador of the party, in the course of a speech at 4 reception for. local Chinese journalists at the Central Pork this morning.
The reason why ho and his col-ensues travelled to Japan by way of Manchuria and Korea, he.said,, was because they wanted to roach Japan before the close of the World Newspaper Exhibition held in Osaka under The auspices of the "Osaka Mainichi" and "Osaka Asahi." They stopped at Mukden only éteon minutes and did not leave the station for a single tree, the Increase 10 four cents is tone which will hardly be felt by the population.
"The rise in, the cost of meat and other food commodities has caused the Harbin Bureau of oilways breed cows, pigs and hens In the experimental farms. In future. with
breeding' purposes will ported {hi aim, the cattle and fowl for from foreign countries and the young animals will be sold all over the country.
The new State Navigation Academy was officially opened here " few days ago by the Minister of Communica ions, the ceremony being attended by local Japanese and Manchoukuo marine and military elreles and also by Administration oMcials. There was formerly a Russian Navigation Col-Jege, which has now been amalgam= ated into the new' Academy, and from which 30 Manchoukuo and 30 Russian studerite have been' taken over, Railway Pensions Withheld There has been much agitation going on among those who have to Fecelve pension money due to them according to the terms of the sale of the Chinese Eastern Railway to Japan, as lately the railway officials have met enquiries with refusals. The local press now state that the oilway authorities do not intend to pay out any sums to those railway Servants who have left for their native land or for other countries, fon the grounds that such moneys are being used for propaganda against Manchoukuo. In' the first place the authorities worried all railway servants to get out of the country as quickly as possible, and in the second, they are surely entitled to receive the money which Is due to them. If there Ig any truth in the explanation given' by the Jocal White Russian organs, the reasons for non-payment seem tather, weal
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