Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-11
RA|LWA CONTROL
SEIZED BY CHINESE
Russian Officials 0uSted and
Displaced, ia Being Put
Under Arrest.
BY the Associated Press.


TOXIC, July 11.-Japanese official
circles watched events in Manchuria to-
day with growing anxiety, seeing in the
Chinese coup which has destroyed the
Russian control of the Chinese Eastern
Railway, a situation dangerous to the
Chinese Southern Railway, in which
Japan has vital interest.
A Rengo dispatch from Harbin today
stated that the Chinese authorities took
over complete control of the Chinese
Eastern Railway at midnight last night.
Asked to Leave China.
Further dispatches said that Gen.
Chang Ching-hui, governor of the Har-
bin district, handed B. N. Melnikov,
| consul general for Soviet Russia, pass
| ports for all the Soviet officials in the
| Harbin district, demanding their with
/ drawal from Chinese territory within
| IL hours.
The Chinese action in taking over
control of the Chinese Eastern Railway
was stated to be a counter move to
Melnikov's demand for the release of
| all Russians arrested by noon today.
The Chinese promptly dismissed the
railways director, replacing him with
a Chinese, and also dismissed other
high Soviet officials, white Russians be-
ing appointed to replace any OF those
ousted.
The Chinese action in handing the
consul general passports for Soviet offi-
cials followed a threat by the Soviet
consul general that all Soviet officials
would leave China Immediately.
| The Rengo advices said that reports
| utoro raaoiuol in uortio that Soviet
| troops in Eastern Siberia were ready
| to move on a moments notice.
| The lorg-standing feud between
| Northeastern China and Soviet Russia
over control of the Manchurian unit OF
the TranS-Siberian Railway System has
broken forth anew with what is regard
ed here as a definite Chinese move
against the Russians.
Arrests ia Officers.
Rengo News Agency dispatches from
Harbin, Manchuria, said that Gen.
Chang Ching Hui, Governor Of the Har-
bin district, yesterday arrested 174 So
Wet officials and employees of the Chi
nese Eastern Railway. Thirty-Seven of
the prisoners were started under guard
| for the Siberian border for deportation
The dispatches interpreted the coup
as having made a virtually unbeatable
DTeaCn DeJWe6n CIllIld anu bIlc OONACI
Chinese directors were appointed to
replace the arrested Russians, the
Chinese seizing every opening to under
mine the Russian influence.
Among those arrested were the Rus
sian vice director of railways and the
director of the trading commission. All
Russian banking and trading operations
in Harbin were closed. Managing Di-
rector Emshanov and other highest
officials among the Russians still were
free, but threatened with arrest.
Russians Declare Strike.
The coup began Wednesday morning
| at z O'Clock, Chinese police selling the
telephone and telegraph systems of the
, Chinese Eastern Railway and ordering
closed all branches of "Dorcom," or the
union of Russian railway employees
The Russians thereupon declared gen.
/, eral' strike and the Chinese countered
| with wholesale arrests in Harbin and
! other stations on the road.
Chinese police headquarters issued a
communique in which it was stated the
| raid May ~ on the Russian consulate
general at Harbin had uncovered evil
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