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3. We, Sung Chien-loog and Jui Tsui-fah beg to announce still further that from November 18 we have formally agreed to mutual friendship.
In other words, Miss Yang Tze-hua, a notorious woman Bolshevik who was very active under Russian auspices during the Shanghai riots last May, officially discards one lover, Sung Chien-loong, and accepts another, Jui Tsui-fah, and the men declare that there is no ill-feeling between them. This is an example of Russian principles put into effect. Others can be given.
ZINOVIEV'S PRAISE.
Chou
The same influence has been shown in education. Tsu-shiou, a virulent supporter of the Russian Soviet, while Commissioner of Education in this province, abolished the moral precepts which were displayed on the walls of school-rooms and substituted a Sovietised version which declared: "Of all the vices in the world filial piety is the worst, and of the many virtues human desire stands highest."
So thoroughly does Chou Tsu-shou support the tenets of the Soviet political creed that Zinoviev (late Apfelbaum) wrote to him several months ago, congratulating him upon the success of the Japanese mill strike (which led to rioting and widespread disorder), and informing him that he had specially remitted 5,000,000 roubles gold from the Soviet current budget for further "expenses in Shanghai.
CITY WITHOUT PASSPORTS.
Proof exists that the strikes here were directly instigated from Moscow, and that Zinoviev was in constant personal communication with well-known Chinese Communists in Shanghai. He sent a "first payment" of about £1,200,000 for the organisation of this industrial rising. At the height of
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the trouble wide publicity was given in the Red native Press to Zinoviev's declaration on June 7, that "much more blood would have to be shed in Shanghai before the foreigners were expelled from China.'
Jy
Shanghai is peculiarly adapted for the spread of Bolshevik propaganda, for there is no check whatever upon the activities of agitators, either native or foreign. The city is ruled by an International administration. All nationalities go and come freely. Passports simply do not exist.
Under Russian influence, Chinese Bolsheviks have been trained in the so-called "Shanghai University," which flourished in Seymour Road until the building was requisitioned by naval forces landed during the strike. Some twenty Moscow-trained Russian-speaking Chinese lectured on the principles of Bolshevism. There are, at a conservative estimate, 1,000 paid Russian Red agitators in and around Shanghai, concerned solely with the unification and Bolshevisation of the numerous Chinese trade guilds and labour unions.
£1,000 BRIBE,
Money is plentiful for this purpose, as shown by the fact that the Soviet Consulate-General was prepared to spend £1,000 in bribing a White Russian in the hope that he would secure the liberation of Dosser, the imprisoned agitator sent to Hongkong, by perjuring himself.
A fact of great significance in connection with the Russian organization in China is that the supreme head of the propaganda movement is not Karakhan, Soviet Ambassador at Peking, but Jacob Borodin, who is at present directing the Southern Red agitation from Canton. Borodin is senior to Karakhan. He works direct with Moscow. He played an
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