CHINA AND RUSSIA
ACTS OF SABOTAGE. BY SOVIET RAILWAY EMPLOYEES* SEVERAL TRAINS DERAILED. (By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.)' (Australian Press Association. ) (Received August 12, 9.40 a.m.) ! SHANGHAI, August 11. ; Martial law is being enforced on the China Eastern Railway in -consequence of the frequency of acts of sabotage by Soviet employees. Several attempts by Communists to wreck trains are reported, the wreckers having attempted to remove portions of track on the Harbin-ManchuU portion and- dynamited other sections. A large quantity of kerosene was found below a wooden bridge, and a locomotive storehouse was burned down.
Foreign messages confirm the sabotage reports, adding that a freight train was blown up a few miles west of Harbin, and fourteen cars were wrecked.
Numerous other goods trains hava been derailed.
The Chinese delegates in the SinoRussian negotiations are reported to have received orders to return to Manchuli, in the hope that the resumption of negotiations has not been entirely abandoned.
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Waikato Times, Volume 105, Issue 17787, 12 August 1929, Page 7
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