The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-24
SOVIET RUSSIA
 HOLDS JAPANESE
 AS RESPONSIBLE
All Trouble Over Railroad for Many Months Laid
 Against Japan
By JOSEPH H. BAIRD United Press Staff Correspondent

United Press Stan Correspondcnt)
 Moscow, Aug 24-(UP)-Soviet Russia holds Japan responsible for 'months-long series of incidents in the Chinese Eastern railway zone of Manchukuo, it was re- vealed today with publication of 6 sharp protest note sent to Tokio The note protested the arrests over period of many weeks, oi SS Russian employees of the rail- | way of which Russia owns a hal1 share.
 Diplomatically it was of import ance because it ignored the repeat ed Japanese assertion that Man. chukuo, the state it made out of Chinese Manchur1a, is solely quali- fled to deal with incidents in its territory.
 Russian Ambassador Constantine Yurenev at Tokio, in making the protest to the Japanese foreign of- flee, said:
 "The soviet government, believ. ing Manchurian (Manchukuoan) authorities and the Japanese gov ernment responsible for the &C., tions, has directed me to declare to you it's protest,
 Russia's long deferred direct protest to Japan came as the cli- max to an increasingly angry ser les of protests by Russian newspa- pers, under the governments close control. and representations of the Russian consul at Harbin, Man. chukuo.
 The Russian note was in re. strained terms, but its tone re- vealed that Russia glames Japan, not Manchukuo, for the incidents which Russians believe are a calculated effort to force Russia to sell, an sacrifice terms, it's share Of the important railway to Man. chukuo. Negotiations for the sale broke down recently.
 Grounds cited for the arrest of Russian citizens in the railway zone were termed silly" Charges by the Japanese war office that the Russian army along the Minchu- kuoan frontier had directed at- tacks of bandits on the railway were said to manifest the growth
 
 ofnclal Japanese circles"
 These groundless accusations are supported by the Japanese war once and by representatives of the iorelgn offce," the protest said.
 Ihe Soviet government consid CTS these activities, which coincid ca With breach by the Japanese ana Manchurian representatives in the railway negotiations. as respon- slpie Tor the Reorganization of the road and the rude infringement of contract rights of the Soviet Union on the railway"
 The note said the Japanese war omce In an official communique August l7 made the "unheard -of statement" that arrests of Russian citizens and attacks on the rail. road were arranged by the Russian Tar eastern army, to which the wal ofhce assigned leadership of the bandit gangs which raid the road
 The Japanese government can not understand that such freuuenI statements of the Japanese war omce, along with the activities in Manchuria, manifest the growth o1 aggressive intentions of certain of. ncial Japanese circles" said the protest.
 London, Aug 24-(UP)-Japar has advised Soviet Russia to take up with the judiciary of the state or Manchukuo" any protests fl may wish to make regarding incl. dents in the Chinese Eastern rail. way zone, the Exchange Telegraph TOXIC correspondent cabled today
 The advice was in reply to the sharp protest sent from Moscow, against arrests of ussian empIove. or the railway. the correspondent said.