EVACUATION OF MANCHURIA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13399, 30 January 1907, Page 7

EVACUATION OF MANCHURIA.

RUSSIANS LEAVING AT ONCE

By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright.

Pr.KiN, nary 28. It has been officially announced at Pekin that Russia has notified thai her evacuation of Northern Manchuria, m accordance with the terms of the Russo-Japanese peace treaty, will take place immediately, instead of on April 15. Twenty thousand troops are to be withdrawn, leaving only the guards for the railway.

St. Petersburg, January 28.

It is staled in St, Petersburg that the withdrawal of the garrison is due to the Tsar's desire to be free from foreign complications in the present condition of. home affairs.

■ Under the treaty of peace the troops of both Russia and Japan are to be completely withdrawn (except railway guards) by April 15, or eighteen months after the signing of the treaty. In September last it was reported that the Russian (Government had notified its inability to evacuate Northern Manchuria within the stipulated time, owing to internal troubles in Knropeaii Russia. The real reason of the Tsar for hastening withdrawal from Chinese, territory is probably a desire to check Japanese progress in the province. All authorities :>y that the Japanese are using their military occupation of the province to give their commercial and other clashes a grip upon it. " the Russians remained in Northern Manchuria the Japanese would remain in the country from Mukden down to Port Arthur.