The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-05-29
SAYS JAPANESE PROVOKE CLASH
 IN MANCHURIA
Newspaper Tells of High Handed Policy Adopted
 By Soldiers.

Peking, May 2S-Reports reaching here indicate that the Japanese are carrying things with a high hand in Manchuria now that the other Allied troops are virtually out of the coun- try. The Peking and Tientsln Times has received from it's cores pondents reports which it presents under the heading Reign of Terror in Manchuria." It says that at Imam DO, two Russian workmen who made some disparaging remarks about the Japanese Emperor in talking to a Japanese soldier in the Russian rail way hospital were seized by Japanese soldiers and "summarily shot on the spot.'' At Harbin, 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 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 II 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 Unger Steinberg."
 The Japanese are declared to have
 
 Semenoff troops who are reported to be actively assisting the Japanese and helping to terrorize the local population. The Times predicts that similar incidents are likely to in- crease as the Japanese hold of the Russian Far East becomes more in- tense and states that the Japanese garrison at Harbin is to be increased by 1000 more men. This reinforce ment is declared by the paper to be absolutely sufficient to maintain or der.''
 The situation along the Chinese Eastern Railway was characterized by the Times correspondent as very critical. He stated that the Japanese military authorities had decided to place their own guards and sentries along the whole stretch of the rail- way which crosses Upper Man churia, because they were about to send troop trains and military sup plies along that railway and were afraid the Russian railway workers who were opposed to Japanese inter i vention might try to stop the Japan csc from carrying out their plans. "The Japanese seem bent upon , brewing trouble among the Russian population residing inside the railway area by giving them a series of pin bricks so as to bring about open strife which will give them an excuse to take determined action even to the seizing 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 frontiers against invasion but thai this did not confer the right to oc- cupy settlements along the line, or interfere with the rights of local pop ulations. He declared that the pur- pose of the Japanese to seize contro of the railway called for an imme- diate protest on the part of the Al lies.
 In Nikolsk, he reported, the rail- way workers having gone on strike Japanese soldiers were rounding them up and forcing them at the ] point of the hayonet, 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 Nerkhne-Udlnsk, Trans ; Baikalia, have reached an agreement under which inherent rights of the Russian Soviet government in the Eastern Manchurian railway were i recognized and the Chinese guaran- teed to withdraw their troops from i along the railway lines.;' It was l pointed out that China's agreement that the Russians should retain pos session of it's road deprived the Jap. anese of one of their best excuses foI keeping troops on it.