Tokyo, Apr. 22.
The Japanese military authorities have formally intervened in the strike of miners of the Kailan Mining Administration, which has showed no indication of an early settlement despite the terms of the agreement reached between the strikers and the Administration.on April 14, says a Japanese report from Tientsin received here today As the strike is now over a month old, and that the area affected lies in the rear of Japanese military operations, the Japanese military authorities in Tientsin ordered the strikers te return to work immediately, in accordance with the agreement reached on April 14, under pain of heavy penalty.
"Simultaneously," the Japanese report adds, "the Japanese military authorities have requested the Kailan Mining Administration to carry out the terms of the agreement and pay $400 to the family of every miner who was killed during the strike, and o to give free medical treatment to wounded strikers"—Reuter. during the Soviet trial of January, 1937, and the purge has been continuing ever since.
The "Peoples Right" charged that the plot was headed by Buddhist priests connected with Japanese agents beyond the border of Outer Mongolia. Confessions were obtained from leaders of the Jugotzar Monastery, which was described as Japanese spying centre, the "Peoples Right" said. The newspaper said the priests had plotted an armed uprising, Although the number of men executed was not available, the total was said to rival the numbers killed in the Soviet Union purge—United Press.
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