DEPOATIONS CONTINUE

Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 16 July 1929, Page 5

DEPOATIONS CONTINUE

7- « s/sOVIET DISPUTE. pijLEEU FOR EMERGENCY / I - MUEN authorities ready. (Uniyesa Association—By Electric Telegraph 1 Copyright.) '(Australian Press Association.) / SHANGHAI, July 15. Nithstandi.no; Moscow’s ultima/ that it ‘ will be compelled to i re J to means other than negotiathe protection oi its lawful r w unless China released the arrJ Russian employees and tlie ose Eastern Railways cancellou illegal orders, Harbin reports fnr--fc! deportations of Russians, inciudi the general manager, and his •jtants, Emshanoff and Eissymont. he ultimatum, which was handed the Chinese Charge d’Atfairew ati scow on July 13, expires to-morrow, .t is reported that the Mukden diorities are prepared for any eniergey that is likely to arise. The ooeration of Chiang-Kaishek and lang-Hsue-Hliang, the Mukden war rd, is assured. Japan is likewise preparing for ventualities, and there is much miliary activity of the Japanese Manchurian garrison. Professor Serebriakoff is reported l to have been appointed a plenipotenti-1 ai - y to negotiate with the Chinese, who meanwhile are reiterating that the Soviet had violated the railway agree,rv

SERIOUS. VIEW TAKEN. GERMAN PRESS COMMENT. {United Press Association—By Electric lieiegrai.i; Copyright.) —■United Service). LONDON, July 15. ‘‘A serious view is taken of the Sino-Russiau situation,” stays the Berlin correspondent of the “Daily Mail.” The “Vorwaerts” points cut that Russia's treaty rights in the Chinese Eastern Railway is a matter of life and death. If Russia Joses its hold of communication between Moscow and Vladivostock, Siberia will be endangered and access to the Pacific will be jeopardised. Russia must choose between war with China and abandoning Vladivostock and the Pacific coast. “If it is true, as is reported at Moscow, that Japan has made a secret military treaty with China, the Soviet's position is desperate and she may he obliged to appeal to the League of Nations to save her; it is hopeless tr> go to war,” the “Vorwaerts” adds.

HOSTILE MEETING AT MOSCOW. MODERATES HOPE WAR WILL BE AVERTED. Received 10.5 a.m. to-day. . MOSCOW, July 15. ■f Thousands at a massed meeting - es- ” terdajy breathed fire against China, and pledged themselves to be ready to take up arms in defence of Sovietrights. The more moderate opinion hopes t that a wav will he found ito avert the conflict which they fear may he precipitated. if China ignores l the ultimatum. as it did the raid on the Harbin consulate.