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Show CONSUL-GENERAL HAS HARD TIME WITH SIBERIANS TOKIO, June 3 l Correspondence of the Associated Press.) Ernest W. Harris, the American consul-general at Irkutsk, had a diQagreoab)o experience recently at Dauria between Manchull and Chita, according to Siberian ad vices, when his baggage was forcibly opened by troops of General Semenoff. the Cossack leader. Mr. Harris was traveling eastward from Omsk on a special train. Si in- n-ofr.s n-ofr.s men composed of Russians. Bu-riats. Bu-riats. Mongolians and Chinese, boarded the train and insisted on inspecting ihe baggage of Mr. Harris and his party Thistiemand was refused and the train was held at the station six hours pending pend-ing a decision of Semenoffs officers as to whether they should open the baggage or not. Guards were kept on board Mr Harris' car during the in terval and machine guns stationed so as to bear directly on ihe American consul general's car. The Semenoff commander finally decided de-cided that the baggage must be inspected in-spected so at midnight his men broke open all the trunks, boxes and bags in the possession of the American party and made a hastry search of their content? con-tent? It does not appear that they h ied any duties or took away any property belonging to Mr. Harris or his companions The baggage was closed by the troops before leaving. Dauria station is on the section of the trans-Siberian railway that it is under un-der supervision of the Japanese. oo |