861.77 Chinese Eastern/673: Telegram
The Chargé in China (Perkins) to the Secretary of State
1129. My 1120, December 10, 2 p.m. Following from American Consul, Harbin:
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“December 11, noon. Tsai and Li left yesterday afternoon direct for Habarovsk on special train which will open up communications at least temporarily with the Ussuri Railway on which it is expected Soviet railway officials will come to Harbin within a few days. General Wan Fu-lin telegraphically stated that he could guarantee protection to a consular corps commission on a proposed special train only as far as to Yakeshi where Chinese vanguard stationed and where Chinese forces have taken up position against the Russians. It is safe to assume that practically the whole region of Barga, west of Yakeshi,5a is no longer under Chinese control. Refugees who have arrived from the vicinity of Manchuria Station and Hailar report that Mongol and other Red military detachments are patrolling that vicinity and that members of the G. P. U. or Soviet State military [police?] have made arrests of Russians suspected by them of having carried on White propaganda principally at Manchuria Station and Chalainor.”
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“December 11, 4 p.m. Tsai and Li have been detained at Pogranichnaya owing to some obstruction in tunnel near that place.”