Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-19 | Page 2 | Chinese and Japs Fighting in Manchuria

CHINESE 10 Stations on Railroad West of j Harbin Occupied By . Japanese, Jap-anese, Reported. (Bv The Associated Press ) HARBIN. Manchuria. April 17. Fighting is reported between Japanese an Chinese troops on the railroad to the west of Harbin. South' of ihis city Japanese have occupied several stations sta-tions on the railroad to the north of Chang Chun. General Voilr.ehavsky with a remnant rem-nant of the Kolchak army, has joined foices with General Semenoff and Is co-operating wilh the Japanese evident ly with the intention of establishing a nc- anti-Bolshevik front beyond Man-! churla station, on the trans-Siberian road near the Trans-Baikal border I! I i? Relieved here (hat the Japanese in-1 trnd to occupy the line as far as Lake . Baikal. The committee of railway employes leeently formed here which sought to seize control of the Chinese eastern line was temporarily suppressed by General Pao. The present control board consists of five Chinese and 'Ave Russians, under Ihe management of M I.achlnoff, but there have been no noticeable not-iceable effects of- the Chinese pai tici pation in the management, ergardlng hlch there are innumerable com-'plaints com-'plaints of "graft and defective control The fnter-allled technical commission of which John F. Stevwis, American engineer, is the head, is powprless to do anything under present conditions to Improve the railway situation and it is expected that it will leave the coun- j try shortly, homeward bound. ! nn