It ip cage to understand why Mr. Karakhaa was annoyed by: the Cabinet's quibbling, the Russian goose now hangs high and © Russian diplomat Oriental country does not. fect called. upon to mako concessions made the flat statement, that there! would be no forma) bargaining before full recognition of his Goxernment, In condescending {9 discuss a preliminary. agreement! which should define the "gener!
that would govern a subsequent conference, he nataral-felt that he was good-aaturedly weakening his position to coax China along, Te waa of course Dr. Wang's job to win from Mr. Karakhan and] embody in this preliminary document as many pointed and detail. ed concessions as be possibly could and the Russian's tack was to adhere to general principles, keep' the language of his asstirances as vague as possible and hold alli vital questions open for discussion after recognition when his Gor: ernst would be the legal fete Traperial "Russia's rights and" properties in China. The text of the agreement has not set been given out, but it would seem that while Karakhan contrived keep details out of it, Dr. Wang] did pin him down to to many definite assurances that at the end wae glad to find a good excuse for cancelling the agreement _altogether, The attitude—which] 'Moscow has taken towards China's refusal to give the agreement immediate force also indicates that the Soviet Government, like Mr. Rarakhan, was getting' more and more annoyed by the aesirances upon which China insisted and was not loth at the end to scrap, the negotiations and. the docu ment and reiterate the former position of "no recognition, no} have fresson and. the tena should not have on alow: Thi ne. Focing Cobieg- should)
The Chines" press la today very timid about—speculating, pon whae will' come nex here seems to be no ground. for the rumour that Mr. Karakhan will now Teave for Canton, fo rayn that he has no orders and that, 90 far as he knows, he will stay here. Both China and Rus sia are now on such very high horeow that neither can climb down without making a tremen-dows desconti The Chinese na. tionalistio spirit certainly would not endorse tinconditional cognition of Russin now and Ru sia could not, alter yesterday's note, expect Mr. Karakhan to 7 negotiations before rexDgnition, This would entail a lows of face which in China would. be fatal to his cause. Recognition by China now would mean conditional surrender tom very haughty domineering Power. Further negotiation on Russia's part would put her in the position of defeated enemy. secking w ro newal of relations ILL WIND, It is obvious to-day that, yootorday's" developments are by 10 menu regretted. in. the foreign community. Faith in the revival of m strong, responsible Russian Government' dealing with other Occidental Powers ta good faith ly certainly deeper now than any existing faith in the Chinete Gov-grament. Tt is felt that the ox-stance of m strong Pow China's frontier, able and ed to take a strong hand with undisciplined Chinese" offi classes, would be of great ad-Vantage rot only to all foreigners in China but eventually to China's advantage as well. Every other diplomat in Peking knows. that easy-going and lenient diplomacy with the Chinese Government ae ited nets, neither the Powers nor China herself anything but more anarchy; 90 there some satisfaction in seeing Rus. in learn the same lesson and act with decision upon it, Those who have no sympathy whatever with the Bolshevist theories or with the recent, administration of Russia share this satisfaction no less but rather more becaitse China hae been so rudely dealt with by the new Power which the hoped to cultivate aq an ally ngainet her other "aggressors."
A further very interesting article on what China demand of Russia, and the Cabinet's sedrot share" in ithe negotia: tions will be found on page 478
Sovir's wit next oF wan. the Moscow Government. an+ tig reported from Riga. that Loridoa, Mar. 20
ounce that la coonexton with the tension with China they are dertaking a series of proparstory stops in the nature of war mea-oures. The Red command is con-
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