Disappearance Said to Be Due to High Wind: Are Comrades Going to Chapei?, It has been rumoured for some days past that the Bolsheviks intend to vacate their Consulate in Whangpoo Read, removing into premises in Chinese territory. Also it seems to have been widely beved that the Hongkong & Shanghai Hotels, Ld., had bought. the Consulate for half a million dollars.
"There is absolutely no truth in ity" said Mr, C. A. Skinner, local secretary "of the hotel company, on Tuesday, when approached regarding the reported deal, He added that the idea had never for one moment been entertained by the company.
Inquiries elsewhere elicited the information that the Bolshevik consular premises have for some time been in the market. This fact coupled with the disappearance a few days ago of the Red Flag which kas been flying over the roof since the advent of the USSR. sentatives in Shanghs the impression to some-min the Red consular authorities are apparently agreeable, to a change of quarters.
Well-informed circles, however, credit the report that smaller premises have already been engaged by the Bolsheviks in Chapei, whither their most important archives have been remove: from Whangpoo Road, With regard to the disap of the Red Flag the offd for this is stated in White and Bolshevik journals to be ax follows:—During the high wind the other day, the pulley by which it {% hoisted ras_carried away by the flag. Owing to the unsafe state of the mast it has been impossible as yet to repair the damage. Within the U.S.S.R. Consulate on Tuesday there were little signs of an impending moving' day, Behind red curtains the big stall were working: as usual. On the lon that he too busy, M. Ozo e Consul, refused to see the "North-China"*
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