Nov. 12.
In yesterday's article we gave some quotations from the first issue of ''The New Russia," illustrating its notion of accurate unbiassed information and its true character as a medium of the most strenuous Bolshevist propaganda. And we suggested -that its appearance now has a special significance. From the time of the coming to Peking of Mr.. Yourin and his efforts to arrange a trade agreement between China and the Far Eastern Republic, which has never been anything but a thinly disguised offshoot of the Soviet Government and is now casting away that disguise altogether, it has been palpable that Moscow was peculiarly anxious to win over China to its side. Recent events fin other parts of the world have accentuated this desire, one manifestation of which is the arrival of Mr. Joffe in Peking, the other the foundation of '"The New Russia,' in a language which every Chinese who knows any tongue but his own may be trusted to understand. These events may be summed up in the words, Germany, the Kemalists and Vladivostok; and the association of them with the Soviet's new activities in the Far East is abundantly visible in the pages of The New Russia."
The importance of the treaty concluded between Russia and Germany as announced during the Genoa Conference is dwelt upon in the article by Moh Hassan which we referred to yesterday For a long time the German Government followed a policy of fear, (he writes). It knew that the Allies disapproved of an understanding between Russia and Germany. During the Conference of Genoa Germany took the risk of this disapproval, and since then the economic relations between Russia and Germany have been much stronger.
We are not for the moment considering the military compact which is believed to have accompanied this alliance, nor the possibility that the introduction of German gold and resuscitation of private industry in © Russia must tend to undermine Communism's hold, we point only to the obvious delight of Moscow in getting itself recognized by an independent Western Power, Moh Hassan then turns to the Near East, declaring that The Russian support of the Turkish Nutionalists has given them the chance to defeat the Greeks and to reconquer the greatest part of the lost territory... The effective help from the Russian side and the growing antagonism between England and France has given the chance to them to re enter Europe again; the Turkish example is of great value for all the-oppressed peoples and nations.
One imagines that this reading of recent events would hardly be to the taste of the proud Kemalists and that Soviet agents in Constantinople, with their eyes on the recovery of Bessarabia and the control of the Dardanelles, adopt a different tone. But the upshot is the same, an alliance with Germany, whose recovery as a great Power is merely a question of time, and an alliance with the Kemalists, whose star appears decidedly in the ascendant. To these events has now to be added the Japan-osa evacuation of Vladivostok and consequent disappearance of the last barrier to the Pacific.
Unless the Red censorship at Vladivostok is more than usually untruthful, the Soviet is acting with studied moderation in that city. We may believe that it is doing so, in order to impress Chinese and foreigners with the beneficence of Bolshevik rule. But the iron hand is distinctly perceptible beneath the velvet, as witness from Mr. Hodoroff's article in The New Russia But perhaps the most remarkable and important feature of the last victory is that it has been won in
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