CHINA AND RUSSIA

Hokitika Guardian, 30 July 1929, Page 5

CHINA AND RUSSIA

SOVIET OFFICIALS. WANT BUILDING FOR CLUB. (United Press Association.— By Electrn Telegraph.—Copyright.) 1 VV ; RIGA, July 28. The Times correspondent states that after a three days’ battle the O.G.P.AV. Police arrested the Orthodox priest, Koleroff, and seventeen believers, at Kimry, 80 miles from Moscow. The Soviet decreed the closure of the church in order to convert the building into a leather workers’ club, but when the officials appeared in order to ■ carry out the formal confiscation, they found the doors barred and locked by thirty locks. They attempted to force the'doors but the 'believers, armed with stick's, beat them off. According to the official Soviet account',’ a crowd of two thousand gathered round the church and routed the local police. The Chairman of the local Soviet appeared with a bodyguard of Soviet officers, 'but they were all captured, and thrashed. Police reinforcements were drafted in, and met with a similar fate; and further drafts came in, until the resistance was overcome, but it took three days to do it. CHINESE NEWS. !. ’ ' ' (Received this day at 11 a.m.) SHANGHAI, July 29. Chinese and Russian troops are repel ted to be withdrawing from the frt ntier, in order to lessen the danger of an armed clash and facilitate peace negotiations. , A Harbin telegram states the opposing forces.are twenty miles apart. Four thousand additional Japanese military i‘‘ sentinels ” have neen transferred to the South Manchurian rail way zone as a precautionary measure. Seven hundred more Russian ’employees on the Chinese Eastern I>ai.way and customs staff have been dismissed. Chushaoyang, China’s appointed peace maker, en route to meet the Soviet delegate, has arrived at Peking. He declared he is proceeding to Mukden to confer with Marshal Chang Hsuchiang. Whether he will proceed to Moscow is uncertain as yet.

X. TROOP MOVEMENT. .r ' (Received this day at 9.25 a.m.) SHANGHAI July 29. Troop movements reported on the •border of Manchuria are probably White Russian activities. A band of White Russians are stated recently to have captured a small town in ,Siberia. They are disarming soldiers.. AWFUL CONDITIONS. SHANGHAI, July 30. Reports from Ivansu, where there has been no rain for four years, def*"* - The population of fhe city of Antinghas has been reduced to two thousand. from sixty thousand. Recently a Magistrate wishing to \J punish a person accused of eating bodiies of fellow sufferers, encountered tho plea “I have only eaten what the dogs ate,”