Imperial Valley press., 1920-05-29
JAZZ ANESE RULE
WITH HIGH HAND
IN MANCHUR|A
Reports Reach Pekin That Rod
of Iron is Held Orer Russians
and Chinese; Situation De-
Da0ndS Action.
(By Associated Press

PEK1NG, May 29.-Reports reach
ing here indicate that the Japanese
are carrying things with high hand
in Manchuria now that the other al
lied troops are virtually out of the
country. The Picking and Tientsin
Times has received from its CORES
pondents reports which it presents
under the heading Reign of Terror
in Manchuria." 1t says that at Imam
pc, two Russian workmen who made
some disparaging remarks about tpe
japanese emperor in talking to Jap
anese soldier in the Russian railway
hospital were seized by Japanese SOL
diers and ''summarily shot on the
spot" At Hardin, the paper says,
Japanese sentries stationed on a
bridge threw one Russian off the
bridge breaking his collar-bone and
stabbed another in the face with
bayOnett when the Russians insisted
upon crossing the bridge.
The japanese are reported by the
newspaper to have taken full posses
sion of Hailar and arrested there II
Russian workers and handed them over
TO the representative of General Sem
enoff and the Times adds that by this
time mo doubt they have been shot
by Baron Unger Steinberg."
2 The japanese are declared to have
brought to Hailar and armed 500 SEM
enoff troops who are reported to be
actively assisting the Japanese and
helping to terrorize the local popula-
ton. The Times predicts that similar
incidents are likely to increase as the
Japanese hold of the Russian Far East
becomes more intense and states that
the Japanese garrison at Hardin is to
be increased by 1000 more men. This
reinforcement is declared by the paper
TO be absolutely unnecessary las the
Chinese troops stationed there are suf-
ficient TO maintain order.
The situation along the Chinese
Eastern railway was characterized by
the Times correspondent as very crit
ical. He stated that the japanese MIL
itary authorities had decided to place
their own guards and sentries along
the whole stretch of the railway which
crosses Upper Manchuria, because
they were about to send troop trains
and military supplies along that rail
way and were afraid the Russian rail
way workers who were opposed TO Jap
anese intervention might try TO stop
the japanese from carrying out their
plans.
The japanese seem bent upon brew
ing trouble among the Russian popu-
lation residing inside the railway area
by giving them a series of pinpricks
so as TO bring about open strife which
will give them an excuse TO take de-
termined action even to the Selling
and working of the Chinese Eastern"
wrote the correspondent. The CORES
pondent admitted that the Japanese
hao the right 10 send troops over the
railway TO protect frontiers against
invasion but that this did not confer
the right to occupy settlements along
the line, or interfere with the rights
of local populations. He declared that
the purpose Of the japanese to seize
control of the railway called for an
immediate protest on the part Of the
allies.
In Nikolsk, he reported. the railway
workers having gone on strike Jap
anese soldiers We're rounding them up
and forcing them at the point of the
bayonet, TO do the work Of laborers.
Since the foregoing situation was
described, information has been made
public in Moscow that Chinese and
Russian military commissioners in
conference at Verkhne- Udinsk, Trans
Baikalia. have reached an agreement
nuder which inherent rights of the
Russian soviet government in the
Eastern Manchurian railway were
recognized and the Chinese guaranteed
to withdraw their troops from along
the railway lines" 1t was pointed out
that Chins's agreement that the Rus
SLAMS should retain possession Of its
road deprived the japanese of one of
their best excuses for keeping troops
on il.