MANCHURIA

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 30 July 1929, Page 5

MANCHURIA

TROOPS WITHDRAWN FROM FRONTIER DANGER OF CLASH LESSENED FURTHER DISMISSALS OF RUSSIANS ' _-' ; (United Prut Assaoiatfon—By ILKtri* Telegraph—<Jopyri*ht) (Australian Press Association) '".;.,... (Received 30th July, 8.55 a.nv) ; " J SHANGHAI, 29th July. ■ '■•'*•. Chinese and Russian troops ' are '.re/ '; ported to be withdrawing from the frontier in order to lessen the danger*of. ~ an armed clash and to facilitate' peace negotiations. "-' • A Harbin telegram states that the'op-" posing forces are twenty miles apart. Four thousand additional Japanese military "sentinels" were transferred to the South Manchurian railway zone' as .a'.'.",-' precautionary measure. , > Seven hundred more minor Russian ' employees on the Chinese eastern rail-: way and Customs staff were dismissed. China's appointed peacemaker en route to meet the Soviet delegate, arrivr , ed at Pekin. He declared that he is' proceeding to Mukden .to confer with Marshal Chang Hseuh-liang. Whether he . will proceed to Moscow is uncertain as . yet. ...:;..;". WHITE RUSSIANS' ACTIVITIES. '". (Received 30th July, 10.30 a.m.) "", SHANGHAI, 29th July. .... ; Troop movements reported on the boiv '• der 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 Red soldiers. " '. ... ~'. . ~ v 1..-'.