Evening star., 1932-03-15
TOXIC SEES SOVIET
APPROVAL OF PU-Y|
Russia Reported as Indicat-
ing Acceptance of His
Choices for Rail Directors.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
TOXIC, March l5.-News from Man
churia today led japanese officials to
express the belief that Soviet Russia
will soon recognize officially the new
Manchurian state under the dictator
ship of Henry Pu-Yi, former Chinese
boy Emperor.
A dispatch to the Rengo News Agency
from Changchun, capital Of the new
state, said Russia informally indicated"
it would accept Dictator Pu-Yi's nomi-
nees for directors of the Chinese East
ern Railway instead Of the directors
appointed by the Chinese National gov
eminent at Marking.
This, Mr.. Pu-Yrs followers were re-
ported as saying, would be equivalent
to a de facto recognition Of the new
regime. Changchun authorities already
have approached Moscow with the pro-
posal, the dispatch said. The Chinese
Eastern Railway is jointly operated by
Russia and China.
Would Remove Menace.
Oficials here recalled that Russia
negotiated separate agreements with
Peiping and Mukden in 1924 regarding
the railway, thereby accepting the
principle of Manchuria'S autonomy"
and that the Sino-Russian Khabarovsk
protocol of 1929 also treated Manchuria
as a separate political entity.
The indication here was that Toxic
would be considerably relieved if Russia
would accept the new regime and ad-
just her railway interests to it, thereby
supporting, in effect, Japan's efforts for
a separation Of the territory from China
proper Such a Soviet attitude would
officials indicated, lessen the danger Of
Russo-Japanese conflict.
The Sino- Russian agreement of 1924
provides for the selection of five Chinese
and five Russian directors, a Chinese
president and Russian vice president,
of the railway. Recent expansion of
Russian commerce in Manchuria was
expected to be a strong factor in in
fluencing Moscow's decision. The Rus
sian oil trust has captured most of the
business in North Manchuria and is ex-
panding in South Manchuria at the
expense of American and British firms.
Insurgent Chief Submits.
Another dispatch to the Rengo
Agency from Changchun said Gen.
Wang Teh-Lin, Chinese insurgent COM
mander, whose followers are estimated
at 2,000 and who has been engaged in
guerilla warfare during the past month
against the Japanese and troops of Gov.
Hsi Hsia of Kirin Province, met the
governors envoy yesterday and agreed
to submit to the new rule.
Resumption of direct wireless service
between Mukden and the United States.
which has been suspended since the
japanese occupied Mukden on last Sep
tember l9 and seized the radio station.
has been promised soon as result of
decision of the communications de-
partment of the Pu-Yi regime to nego-
tiate assumption Of the old contracts.
Since the station was closed the
Japanese government system has pro-
vided the only telegraphic outlet from
Southern Manchuria.
A dispatch from Manchui said 70
Japanese women and children were
evacuated from there and sent to
Harbin because of fear of renewal Of
attacks by Chinese insurgents, and that
the 80 Japanese men in the town were
preparing to defend it stoutly II
necessary.
The Chinese insurgents, who are op-
posed to the new Pu-Yi regime and to
Gen. Nah Chan-Shan's rule as gov
ernor of Heilungkiang Province, were
reported concentrating in the vicinity
of Dalainor, east of Manchun. A force
of Chinese troops which was sent
against them ended by joining the in
surgent ranks themselves.