The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-06
LAPS HAVE THINGS
 THEIR OWN WAY
Chinese Report They Are Carrying on With High
 Hand in Manchuria
By Associated Press

Picking, April 2S-Heports reaching here indicate that the Japanese are car rying things with a high hand in Man
 churia, now that the other allied troops are virtually out of the country. The Pe- King and Tientsin Times has received from it's correspondents reports which lit presents under the heading Reign of Terror in Manchuria." It says that at Inanpo two Russian workmen who made some disparaging remarks about the Japanese Emperor in talking to Japan csc soldier in the Russian railway hos pital were seized by Japanese soldiers and 'summarily shot on the spot" At liar bin, the paper says, Japanese sentries ota- toned on a bridge threw one Russian off the bridge breaking his collarbone, and stabbed another in the face with a bayo- net when the Russians insisted upon crossing the bridge.
 The Japanese are reported by the news paper to have taken full possession Of Hailar and arrested there eleven Russian
 workers and handed them over to the Representative of General Semenoff, and the Times adds that by this time mo doubt they have been shot by Baron 1 Cnger Steinberg.'
 The Japanese are declared to have brought to Hailar and armed 5OI Seme- noff troops who are reported to be actlve- 1 ly assisting the Japenese and helping to | terrorize the local population The Times predicts that similar incidents are likely l to increase as the Japanese hold Of the Russian far east becomes more intense | and states that the Japanese garrison I at Harbn is to be increased by loVJJ more men. This reinforcement is declared 1 by the paper to be absolutely upneces- sary, 'as the Chinese troops stationed | there are sufficient to maintain order. | The situation along the Chinese East | ern Railway was characterized by the Times correspondent as very critical. He stated that the Japenese military authori- 1 ties had decided to place their own guards | and sentries along the whole stretch of | the railway which crosses Upper Man. | churia, because they were about to send | troop trains and military supplies along l that railway and were afraid the Russian | railway workers who were opposed to Japanese intervention might try to stop | the Japanese from carrying out their plans.
 "The Japanese seem bent upon brewing | trouble among the Russian population re- siding inside the railway area by giy- I ing them series of pnpricks so as to bring about open strife, which will give them an excuse to take determined action l l Chinese Eastern" wrote the correspon. dent He declared that the purpose of the Japanese to seize control of the railway | calls for an immediate protest on the par of the allies.
 1 In Nikolsk. he reported, the railway workers having gone on strike, Japanes' | soldiers were rounding them up anC | forcing them at the point of the bayone
 to do the work of laborers
 I
 Since the foregoing situation was de
 scribed, information has been made pun
 lie in Moscow that Chinese and Russian
 military commissioners in conference a
 lVerkhne-Udnsk, Trans-Baikalia, hay
 reached an agreement under which Gin
 herent rights of the Russian Soviet gov
 ernment in the Eastern Manchurian Rail
 way were recognized and the Chimes
 guaranteed to withdraw their troops fror
 along the railway lines' It was pointe
 out that China's agreement that the Rus
 sians should retain possession of it's roa
 deprived the Japanese of one of thei
 best excuses for keeping troops on it.