Official Canton made a great display on the, occasion of the Republican anniversary, when the Russian cruiser Vorovsky paid a special visit to Whampoa. A Gov-aman saint of guna furnished the preliminary to the visitors royally received" and. entertained, and not only the officers of the ship but the men as well, numbering in all 150, proceeded to Shaokuan to pay their respects to Sun Yat-sen, elusion of the quarter-deck courtesies may have been merely in keeping with Soviet principles—aecording to which there was nothing to prevent the men from going themselves and directing the officers to remain on board to mind the ship; but one suspects this display of the ultra-democratic had some other and more practical raison deter, Sun is now, as a correspondent points out, in a very. tight corner. He has few or no friends except among his own officials, and his security in Canton is not a thing to wager heavily upon. On the occasion of his next Aight it will not be possible for him to secure safe passage on a British oran American gunboat, and this bein so, a Soviet ship in harbour anda few men to escort him on board would be very welcome in an emergency. It would be one way, and perhaps the only way, in which the Moscow-Canton entente'cordiale rmiight be of use to Sun.
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