The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-06-27

sian people, Is ACTUALLY an 6uJerpTl
This latter circumstance should have
served for a guarantee that all mea-
sures would be taken both on the
Soviet and the Chinese side to consoli-
date and further an enterprise in
which there are involved the inter-
ests of both states.
Cause Heavy Losses.
And yet the first few months prac-
tice has shown, unfortunately, that
far from doing anything to promote
it's further development and prosper
ity, the Chinese local authorities have
been Systematically encroaching upon
the existing property of the railway,
their actions causing the latter to
suffer direct heavy losses.
Nov, the question Of the future dis
posal of the lands belonging to rail-
road arose In the course of the Soviet
Chinese negotiations in 1924, when
the statute of the Chinese Eastern
Railway was dealt with. AS an out
come of the said negotiations. the
following provision was embodied in
Article TX of the agreement signed
at Picking on HAY 81.
Agreement Violated.
"The governments of the two con-
tracing parties agree to settle at the
aforementioned conference the ques-
ton of the Chinese Eastern Railway
in conformity with the principles as
hereinafter provided:
LANDED property with the excep-
ton Of lands required by the said
railway be administered by
the Chinese authorities.
Accordingly, the following things
were required for putting into effect
the provisions embodied in the first
paragraph of Article TX of the Picking
and the first paragraph of Article of
the Mukden agreements, in their
parts, referring to the lands of the
Chinese Eastern Railway:
- An understanding between the
parties as to exactly which categories
of land, being required blythe railway
as a commercial enterprise, should be
left with the railway. 81 An I'M
derstanding, too, as to various condi-
tions and settling of accounts bound
with the passing over to the Chinese
government of the remaining lands.
80 A practical delimitation of lands,
this operation, as in accordance with
the usual and natural practice, to be
performed on the spot by mixed COM
missions, after the question has been
settled on general lines. a
Il had raised the question of call
ing commission for these land af-
fairs, but no reply was received to
my proposition. Later at a sitting of
the board of directors of the Chinese
Eastern Railway, on January IL, with
the participation of the Chinese and
Soviet members of the board (Proto-
col No. 1929, the following decision
was adopted without a dissenting
vote:
Commission Necessary.
~ To ask the president and
vice-president to report to the govern
ment of the Republic of Chine and to
the ambassador of the Union of Sow
let Socialist Republics in China, re-
spectively as to the necessity of insti-
tuting an official commission of rep
resentatives of China and the union,
to effect the delimitation of lands
which are to be alienated from the
Chinese Eastern Railway and those
which are to be left with the railway
as required by the latter for its needs
of technical and economic exploita-
tion.'
"The above decision is thoro evil
dence to the fact that the calling of
special commission was recognized
as the sole possible modus of settling
the land question not only by the Sow
let membership of the board of direc-
tors of the railway, but by the Chin
csc government itself, in the persons
of it's official representatives on the
board. AS | fully shared this view
point, ! Immediately appointed Mr..
Grandt, consul general Of the U. S.
S. r., at Hardin, to represent me on
the said commission.
1T might have been expected that
thereafter the settling of the question
would proceed in a normal way, while