Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-05-31
jAPS TERROR|zE
RUSS SUBJECTS
Rule in Manchuria Describ-
cd as "Reign of Terror
by Correspondents
There.
MURDER VICTIMS
MURDER VICTIMS
In Constant Attempt to
Make Trouble and
Cause Strife.
(By The Associated Press

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Picking. May 29.-Reports reaching
here indicate that the Japanese are
|carrying things with Il high hand in
lManchuria now that the other Allied
troops are virtually out 81 the country.
THE Picking and Tientstn Times has
received from its correspondents re-
ports which it presents under the head
ling Reign of Terror in Mancliuria.' 1t
Says that at ImanpO, two Russian Work
men who made some ~aisEaraglnS re-
marks about the japanese emperor IN
talking to a japanese soldier III the
Russian railway hospital were s":zed
lby Japanese soldiers and "summarily
shot on the spot" At Harbi1, the
paper says. Japanese sentries stationed
on a bridge threw one Russian OF the
bridge breaking his collar bone and
stabbed another in the face with a
bayonet 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 IL
Russian workers and handed them over
Ito the representative Of General Sem
ienoff and the Times adds that by this
time mo doubt they have been shot
lby Baron Unger %Steinberg."
Armed Troops.
The Japanese are declared to have
brought to Hailar and armed 800 Sem
enOff troops who are reported to be
ACTIVELY assisting the japanese and
helping to %terrorize the local pOpula.
ltion. 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
1.-THE japanese garrison at Hardin is to
be increased by 1000 more men. This
reinforcement is declared by tho paper
Ito be absolutely unnecessary las the
lChinese troops stationed there are SUI
ficient to maintain order"
The situation along the Chinese
Eastern railway was characterized by
1.-THE Times correspondent as very crit
Iical. He stated that the Japanese mil
|itary authorities had decided TO place
their own guards and sentrie.s along
the whole stretch of the railway Which
crosses Upper Manchuria, because
they were about to send troop trains
thIu Il1IlluIS SuPDlACS AAoIiS tINA ASAA
way and were afraid. the Russian rail-
way workers who We're opposed to Jap
anese intervention might try to stop
the japanese from carrying out their
plans.
% Looking For Trouble.
1.-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
50 as to bring about open strife which
will give them. an excuse to take de-
termined action even to the sciz:ns and
working of the Chinese Eastern.' wrote
the correspondent. The CORRESPONDENT
admitted that the Japanese had the
right to send troops over tic railway
TO protect the frontiers against invas-
ion but thai this lid nos center the
right to occupy settlements along the
line. or interfere with tl:c rights of
local populations. He declared that
the purpose of the japanese to sciZc
control Of the railway called for an
Immediate protest on the par Of the
Allies.
III Nikolsj;. he report ii, :he railway
WuINSIS Ills SoIS pi "'iiNN S'R
aneSe soldiers were .Ollndilig them TIP
and forcing them at the point III the
bayOnet, to do the work OF laborers.
Reach Agreement.
Since the foregoing situation was
described. Information has been made
public in Moscow that Chinese and
Russian military commissioners in
conference at Verkhne-U d;nski. Trans
Baikalia, have reached an agreement
under which inherent rights OF the
Russian Soviet government in the
Eastern Manchurian railway we're rec
OgmiZed and the Chinese guaranteed to
Withdraw their troops from along the
railway lines 1t was pointed or that
China's agreement that the Russians
should retain possession of it road
deprived the Japanese of II of heir
best excuses for keeping troops nn it.