The Archive · 1920

China and the Reds

Reuter's indefatigable Peking correspondent has interviewed another Chinese official, "who for obvious reasons desired that his name should not be published" (we do not quite know why the reasons are so obvious, by the way)" on the prospects of Bolshevism in China.

"We know (he is reported as saying) what value to place upon the so-called Bolshevist threat in China. We understand that the great masses of our people have no appreciation of the theory of Bolshevism, which is its one attra feature, a beautiful title bestowed upon a monster. They only Know it as a monster, know that the Russians are destroying one another,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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