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MANCHUKUO RAILWAY More Russians Arrested (Aus. and N.Z. cable Assn.) SHANGHAI, August 24. The Manchukuo authorities have announced their preparedness to resume negotiations for the purchase of the Chinese Eastern Railway from the Soviet Government. AFeanwhile a battle of words is progressing between the Soviet, and Alunchukuo and Japan, with charg a and counter charges regarding the responsibility for outrages along the railway, the latest outrage being the wrecking of a Japanese troop train by bandits yesterday, thirty miles west of Iminepo. The number of casualties is unknown. The management of the railway de dare that the losses this year as the result of bandit attacks exceed one million yen. Other results have been that 46 passengers and railway employees have been killed. 102 injured, and 116 kidnapped. Sixteen Soviet <iti/ens employed on the Chinese Eastern Railway have been arrested. The Soviet Consul General in AFan- • hukno ha* trongly protested to the Manchukuo autliorit ies, demanding that the charges against the men be disdosed, and also alleging that they have been brutally beaten and tor-
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Grey River Argus, 25 August 1934, Page 5
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