The Devils Lake world. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1920-1982, 1920-07-07

CALLS |! |! u '' | /: ]! Of ! TERROR

esmsnon Troops Assisting the Jap
ansss Tsrrorixs Inhabitants OF
khatlar-ssem Bent on Brew.
Ing Trouble, Says Paper.
Peking; China.-Reports reaching
here indicate that the Japanese are
carrying things with a high hand In
Manchuria now that the other troops
Of the allies are virtually out Of the
country. The Picking and Tientsin
Times has received from its CORE
spondents reports which it presents
under the heading Reign Of Terror in
Manchurta." It says that at Imanpo
two Russian w0rkmen, who made some
disparaging remarks about the jap
anese emperor in talking to a Jap
anese soldier in the Russian railway
hospital, were seized by Japanese sol
diers and .'summarily shot on the
spot"
At Hardin, the newspaper says, Jap
anese sentries stationed on a bridge
threw one Russian Off the bridge,
breaking his collar bone, and stabbed
another in the face a bayonet when
the Russians insisted upon crossing the
bridge. .aA
The japanese are reported by the
newspaper to have taken full posses
sion of Khailar and arrested there IL
Russian workers and handed them
over to the representative Of General
Semenof and the Times adds that by
this time mo doubt they have been
shot BY Baron Unger Steinberg."
Local Population T~errorlxed.
The japanese are declared to have
brought to Khailar and armed 500,
Semenof troops, who are reported to
be. actively assisting the Japanese and
helping to terrorize the local pOpu
lation. The Times predicts that sim
liar incidents are likely to increase az
the Japanese hold on 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 '.as
the Chinese troops stationed there are
sufficient to maintain order"
The situation along the Chinese,
Eastern railway Vas characterized by
the Times correspondent as very crit
fcal. He, stated that the. Japanese
military authorities had decfded fo
Z place their own guards and sentries
along the whole stretch Of the railway,
which crosses Upper Manchuria, be-
cause they were about to send troop
trains and military supplies along that
railway and afraid, the Russian
railway workers, who were opposed
to Japanese intervention; might try to
stop the Japanese from carrying out
their plans.
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 principles
so as to bring about open strife which
will give them an excuse to take de-
termined action ever to the selling and
working of the Chinese Eastern"
wrote the correspondent.
The correspondent admitted that the
Japanese had the right to send troops
over the railway to protect the from
tiers against invasion, but that this
did not conferethe right to occupy set
Elements along the line, or interfere
with the rights Of local populations
He declared that the purpose Of the
Japanese to seize control Of the rail.
way called for an immediate protest on
the part Of, the allies.
Forcsd 20 Work at 1ayonet Point.
In Nikolsk, he reported; the rail
way workers having gone on strike
Japanese soldiers were rounding them
up and forcing them at the point 81
the bayonet to do the work Of labor
ers.
Since. the foregoing situation wal
described information has been made
public {sins MOSCOW that Chinese and
Russian military commissioners II
conference at Yerkhne-U dinsk, Trans
Baikalia, have reached an agreement
under which inherent rights Of the
Russian soviet government in th.
Eastern Manehurian railway were rec
ognized and: the Chinese guaranteed
to withdraw their troops from aloni
the railWaylines." It was pointed gu,
that China.s agreement that the Rus
SLAMS should retain possession OF 1T
road deprived the Japanese of one Q,
their best excuses for keeping troop!
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