Evening star., 1946-03-10
By Spencer Dovis,

Associoted Press Foreign Correspondent
CHANG GCHUN, Manchuria,
Mar. S Delayed. - A high
Chinese official today said the
Russians feared to stay in Man
churia because of world opinion
and would pull out after that
giant industrial area was picked
clean down to it's steel ribs.
Chinese sources assert the Soviet
stripping has extended to great
power dams and coal mines, leaving
grave fuel shortage in one of the
worlds richest coal regions.
The official declared, the Russians
were making sure that Manchuria
would be industrially weak while
Soviet maritime provinces in the
Pacific have a chance to take the
machinery and build up strategic
industries.
He said the Russians definitely
Manchuria as a threat to
their security and were ready to use
force now to obtain concessions.
Take What They Want
The official pointed out that the
Russians had learned from bitter
experience that they had to main
tain a large army in Siberia to
watch the Japanese in Manchuria
and they wanted to avoid this here
after.
AS to what Russia may ask of
China in the way of further eco
nomic concessions in the rich terri
tory, the official shrugged and said:
Il don't know exactly what they
want. We only know they seem to
take what they want when they
want it,
Official Chinese sources estimated
1t would take at least three years to
restore Manchuria to something like
the industrial capacity it boasted
under the japanese, who built
productive empire there in IA years.
Since Japan collapsed and the
Russians moved in, the Chinese have
trainloads of vital machine
tools in endless procession roll
toward Siberia, and particularly the
great Russian base of Vladivostok.
Got Around Agreement.
Under the Chinese Russian treaty
of last August, it was agreed that
factories established in Manchuria
after 1905 belonged to China and
those antedating that year would be
jointly administered. Thus. the
South Manchurian Railway, which
was there before 1905, would be
jointly operated, but actually the
Red Army runs it now.
The Russians, the Chinese sources
say, got around the agreement by
using a clause in the same treaty
calling for close economic co-opera-
ton and by making their own inter-
probation OF what constituted war
booty.
The Chinese said that after japan
Generalissimo Chang
kai-shek notified Russia, the United
States and Britain that China-be-
cause of eight years of warfare and
suffering-felt she was entitled to
all enemy property within Chinese
territory. Russia was the first to
sign this agreement.
Vanished Industries Listed.
Now Chinese officials sadly list
the industries badly needed to re-
construct China that already have
vanished across the border:
Mukden-Equipment from plants
making machine tools, railway roll
ing stock and other heavy ma
chinery, precision tools, automo-
biles, boilers, heating systems, op-
tical instruments, motors, trans
formers, telephone and telegraph
equipment, aluminium, magnesium,
brass, copper and reflneries making
alcohol and chemicals from coal.
Fushun, one of Manchuria's best
coal producers, east of Mukden-
Most of the generators from the
power station supplying the COL
lieries, leaving insufficient power to
mine COAL
Changchun, Manchuria's capital
machine works, making
mining equipment, so sets of i'm
portant precision machines, the
giant hydroelectric plant on the
Sungari River of Kirin Province, of
which Changchun also is the cap
(See DAVIS, Page A-5.)
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