The Constitutionalist A Battle of Snipe The sixth issue of the "Const tionalist," for October, which we have-just received, is one of the best we have seen," Information on various aspects and activities. of Communism is drawn from a sur: prisingly wide range and, particular, there is an account of the frst national conference of the League - of Young Comrade's Manchester, where 40 or 50 child delegates assembled, their ages ranging, from seven' to 15. years, which Would make one laugh if it were not so tragic in its folly and wickedness. The "Constitutionalist" takes this paper gently to task over a leader of September 17, "The Doctrine of Irresponsibility" and for the estimates of Russian activities and intentions in China, Our eon temporary gives some startling figures of the number of State businesses (6,736) and ce-operative (8,084) as' compared with privat (286,031) even in Russia to-day, to show the practical failure of Com munism. This is interesting, bu: hardly an answer to. the original article, "More effective argument 1s the influence which the Russians ut Moscow are believed to have acquired over the trade unions of China, But Analogies drawn between the state of Russia and that of China are largely superficial, Bolshevism suceeedin Russia as it did because that country was pretending to be western Power with a western system, but the foundations were rotten," China has not yet real-"made any such pretence, which is the basis of our contention that in the Russian view, "China has to go through the stage bf eapitalism before. it can achieve com-imuuism." However, there is certainly no question but that. the Botsheviks are "out™ to make all. the trouble in China that they can, Theie influence in the Chinese "Anti-Christian movement is "worth. reading about, by those who affect to defend this organization and even to. find in ita means of "clarifying" their own thoughts,
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