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THE POLITICAL GAME OF THE PEKING CABINET.

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THE REDS: DREAM.. ASIATIC LEAGUE-ÅGAINST BRITAIN.

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There, was a time and many still alive can remember it--when British statesmen regafled Russia as the natural enemy and "One of the reasons for China's pre-our outposts kept ceaseless vigil on the sent difficult position in its international paases of the North-West Frontier. relations in the tricky diplomacy of the Manchus and their Chinese Ministers. Their efforts to play off any foreigner against the other and their entering into Becret arrangements with various foreign | nations led to the division of China into spheres of influence and almost resulted in a partition of China among the prin cipal nations of the world.

From this danger China has finally been sayed by the volnatury action of the Powers of Europe and Japan in the organization of the Consortium and through the decisions of the Washington Conference. Chins, lacking military power, is dependent upon the nations for a continuation of a policy to restore her integrity and to prevent independent action based upon selfish interest and

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in China's destruction. As long as the Powers stand together as they did a Washington, China is safe." If the Powers are separated as they were pre vious to the Great War, China is doom- ed

Now the old pestré has returned. The shadow of Russia again falls across the Himalayas, and once more British rule in India is threatened--this time not by the Imperialistic policy of the Caurs but by the aggressiveness and limitless ambition of the Reds.

Destroy British rule in India or Egypt,"

a high Bolshevik official in Mos cow told me frankly, and the greatest Imperialistic Power in the world would automatically callapse.'

Officially, of course, the Soviet authori- ties know yething of propaganda in fer- eign countries.

"We do not conduct propaganda," öried one indignant ttle man in the Foreign Office at Moscow." The Communist In- temnational Ah, yes, but the Soviet Government-n, no: They are two dis

diferent acunpy tinct organisations and buildings.

"Quite so. But is not every Commissar also a Communist?" I asked

"You have made mistake. That is very wrung, Tou

"Of Bourse," he said; and I went on to suggest, very mildly, that the procedure The Peking Cabinet, under Marshaled to be this-that certain gentlemen Tuan Chi Jul, which is playing one of in their capacity ns Communists decide the most selfish and miserable personal then rush in their Rolls-Royce to another to start a campaign in (let us say) Egypt, political games, which is sacrificing the country, to keep itself in power, which building, and there, in their capacity as Ministers, compose polite notes assuring is ruining China's reputation abroad to the world that they, the Central Executive maintain its own petty popularity at

of Russia, know nothing of propaganda. home, has adopted a policy of endea vouring to separate foreign nations, ef getting them to quarrel among them selves, of appealing to their more selfish interests, of holding out to one the pos ibility of gain on the probability of another's rain. Should such policy succeed, only China car be damaged. For onge competition amongst nations, great and small, big-hearted and petty, begins again in Chica, the battle for concus sions, the struggle for supremacy. the wars for power will recentnence and China's safety will be imperitled:

...The little man began to forget his English in his exciteraeat: his hands climbed higher and higher till they were waving around this head, and he was still seeking words to express his opinion of

mistakenness when I averted an inter national crisis by departing

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It is not hard to visualise the triumphs of which the more imaginative Bolsheviks dream. Everywhere they tum now, from Shanghai to Cairo, they run up agniast the wall of Britain's power. They look Hat such a policy cannot succeed." Such forward to the day-and it may not he a policy will not succeed. Great Britain, far distant-when bribery, bluster, sod the United States and Japan, together intrigue will have linked up China, India, with France and Italy, to-day bear the Tibet. Turkestan, Afghanistan, Persia, burden of maintaining the peace of the Egypt, and the Sudan in one vast polyglot world. On all sides they are beset by so-league naited by hatred of a commen foe. called small and weaker nations which This achieved, they say, the British Em for some little gain in boundary, or tex-pire will crumble into nothingness like the ritory, for some little satisfaction of great empires of the past, and the way pelty grudge, would throw the whole will be clear for the methodical destruc world into bloodshed and chaos, would tien of the other capitalist States and revive the dreadful years of 1014 to 1919. the conversion of the whole world to The memories of those who sacrificed no- Communism, thing and last nothing during those years Some people scoff at the idea of Sovies are very short indeed, but the nations Russis trying to overrun the world. Bat which gave all their strength that selfish the Eastern section of the Communist In- imperialism might not succeed, will stand ternational already embraces representa together united even as one man to end hives of such diverse peoples as the the revivification of selfish imperialism.Egyptians, Arabs, Turks, Hindus, Tartars, If our quarrel at the present time were Chitiese, Koreans, and Japanese, and with China. we Britons might say to our throughout Asia and Africa Bolshevism colleagues, "Do the best you can and is making rapid progress, the old British Empire will muddle "Ifound Bolshevism firmly established in through it as it has muddled through Canton, thanks to the conversion of the since the good old days of Quera Eliza Tate Sun Yat Sen. (That adventurer, wha beth.". But our quarrel is not with had just been promised £140,000 for the China Our quarrel is with the destruc establishment of a Soviet bank in Canton, tice force of the 20th Century, the germ told me it was only a matter of time that is polluting our great cities, the when the whites would be, swept from beast that has come out of the dark China.) M. Karakhan, the Soviet Am- forests of Russia to disrupt and corrupt bassador in Peking, is spreading his creed, RAILWAY the civilization of the universe, Bolshe-through a subsidised Press; so fast that rism. Against this dreadful plague the another decade may see the whole land Hed. And the Reds are carefully cultivat civilized world must stand united.

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this is, if anything, an understatement sheviks, who are accepting from them these days of the Coronet and Star. That monthly stipends and huge expense at will be readily admitted by all who counts that chaos may fill this land, who visit these to cinemas in the next few are establishing schools and universities days, states a communication from the that the youth of the country may be management. Hollywood," it adds, blinded and may be turned from the cethe big picture at the Coronet, is 2 Alm tury-old customs and traditions of China that has drawn tremendous audiences to the experimental, deadly philosophy wherever it has been shown the great of Soviet Russia, who are substituting

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