CHINA AND RUSSIA

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 261, 31 July 1929, Page 11

CHINA AND RUSSIA

TROOPS WITHDRAWING FROM FRONTIER LESSENING THE DANGER OF CLASHES PEACE NEGOTIATIONS TO BE OPENED In order to lesson the danger of clashes, and facilitate peace negotiations, Chinese and Russian troops are withdrawing from the frontier. (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Australian Press Association. Shanghai, July 29. Chinese »and Russian troops are reported to be withdrawing, from the frontier in order to lessen the danger of armed clashes and facilitate peace negotiations. A Harbin telegram states that the opposing forces are twenty miles apart. Four thousand additional Japanese military “sentinels” have been transferred to the South Manchurian railway zone as a precautionary measure. Seven hundred and thirty or more minor Russian employees of the Chinese Eastern Railway customs staff have been dismissed. Chu Chao-yang, China's appointed peacemaker, en route to meet the Soviet delegate, has arrived at Peking. He declared that he was proceeding to Mukden to confer with Marshal Chang Hseuhiang. Whether he will proceed to Moscow is uncertain yet. WHITE RUSSIANS ON FRONTIER (United Service.) Shanghai, July 30. Reported troop movements on the border of Manchuria probably represent White Russian activities. It is reported that a band of White Russians recently captured a small town in Siberia, disarming the Red soldiers. FAMINE IN KANSU APPALLING CONDITIONS (United Service.) Shanghai, July 29. Reports from Kansu, where there has been no ruin for four years, depict most appalling conditions. The population of the city of Anting has been reduced to 2000 from 60,000. Recently a magistrate, wishing to punish persons accused of eating the bodies of their fellow sufferers, encountered the plea: “We have only been eating what the dogs ate.”