MANCHURIAN LINE
EFFECT OF DISLOCATION SERIOUS LOSSES CAUSED. PEKING, July 22. ll is now rapidly being realised that the interruption of railway traffic, besides dislocating the passenger and mail service between Europe and the Far East, is likely also to have serious economic consequences in North Manchuria, where the local currency has already registered a sharp decline. However, General Chang Msueliliang’s return to Mukden ■ during the week-end appears to have produced a reassuring effect on the public mind, and the impression now puvaiU that the local anthori ties will seek to avoid any step which might he interpreted as offering further provocation to Moscow,
The lliga correspondent of ‘ The Times’ states that Moscow reports that the ruling party in Mongolia met at Brga, the chief town in the northern districts of .Mongolia, and declared readiness to light for the Soviet against the Chinese.
Commenting on Lite French proposal for mediation, the * J'rarda ’ assures the world that the Soviet can fight for peace. Jt will not bo hoodwinked by pacifist manoeuvres, nor aliow Imperialists to realise speculative plans at the Soviet’s expense.
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Evening Star, Issue 20252, 13 August 1929, Page 9
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181MANCHURIAN LINE Evening Star, Issue 20252, 13 August 1929, Page 9
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