RAILWAY DEADLOCK
• RUSSIA DEMANDS HUGE SUM _ KOBE, (Japan)' July 21. Negotiations for tlie sale to Mancliukuo of Russia’s rights in the Chinese Eastern Railway, which crosses the new Republic, have reached a deadlock. Russia is asking 250,000,000 yen (normally £25,000,000, but Manchukuo offers only 50,000,000 yen ’(£5,000,000). The Manchukuo Vice-Minister for Foreign Affair,?, Mr Ohashi, who is a Japanese, visited the Foreign Office in Tokio yesterday. He announced absolute opposition to any compromise, and stated that the parleys would not be resumed until Russia requests it, while, in the event of negotiations not being resumed, Manchukuo would,take possession of tlie railway forcibly, besides blockading th,gi present termini. The Japanese Foreign Office assented to these proposals.
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Hokitika Guardian, 28 July 1933, Page 7
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115RAILWAY DEADLOCK Hokitika Guardian, 28 July 1933, Page 7
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