That the Soviet. agents are gunafours in diplomacy has never Yeon more clearly shown; and their devices have. never" been made so transparent than in their dealings with Chins, "They are all clever men of course, but, no} one is 50 sure of it as they, are. hey are so sure of themselves thee they walk on thor own feet in their hast to take time by the forelock. They go so fast and sure ly after their objectives thay they meet themselves coming bck and thump with a crash. But in no part of tha world have they made ting a mess of their diplomacy by propaganda and subversion a8]
have with the Koreans, They! have Wisillusionéd no other peo plo to. whom they have offered the Red blessing so completely.
The Korean independence move mont is of course ts mulch alive ever was, The recent statement made by an American missionary bishop that it was dead was more than" absurd, 08 "the Japanese would most ' cheerfully testify, ho Korean revolutionaries have not been wasting their strength, dub have been looking for friends and in their search for friends it was inevitable that a corton number should turn Yo Soviet Russia, the advertised saviour of oppressed peoples, and should pin their hopes upon the Communists, will be remembered that, about reo yours Ago the Bolsheviks tablished a bureau in Trkutek, well endowed with gold, with the avowed purpose of overturning, through, propaganda, the existing orders in Mongolia," Korea, Chita and Japan. Korean agents. wore sent into China and Manchuria! with generous supplies of Russian gold. and the usual ling of Communist patter at the end of torr tongues. One of them, Kim Lip, was killed in Shanghai after hav: ing "Cisposed of something, like $400,000 of Russian money. "The Tevel-headed Korean leaders look. ed askance at Red went on and gathered strength. One. of the thief agente. in this work was Mr." Blepok, director. of "the Rosta Agency in" "Peking, who. has just gone to, Japan "io dole out pro-Pganda. there. 'Everywhere. 2 tras being hinted to the Koreans that if they would get together with, the. Soviet folk' they would be. supplied with money, suns end ammunition in" upitmted quantities for a revolnsicnary movement aguinst Japan. Some believed. this and some. did no% but when a definite invitation was finally lested t0°all the lo. tre of all Korean factions, to Scmble in Viedivostok and' talk Over, the conservatives were, Der-Sunded by the Fadioals to attend and. practically every Korea political facties, religious body, sterer society and clique from very part of the For East was) Tepreeented. All" thong Korean letders whose nameg are. well known, to foreigners in the Far Hae were Shore Artin centage of them communista, others were ready Rare at nae radically opposed. The. confer: trice lasted about. a. month, open-about the middle of January and closing about. the middle of February, with the result that there are ab. thi Korean revolutionary above the tod who hate any ure whatever" fora. Red Russitn or any of his doctrines, The only tangible result of much talk with the Soviet agents and much more table among' themselves wea the Grafting of resolution impier. ing Greae Britain, Amoricn and China not to recognize the Boviet Government. "Tis, of cours, could not be got past the eonxorrir woRM TURNS.
The result of the conference eis ale The. morn important Ualegates were met at Pogranitehhaya by communist agents, Were provided. with special cart and were taken {0 Vindivostoke 1 ambassadorial state, Once. toro Shanghai, Peking, Manchuria and Siberia accepted the Soviet's half promiscans definite pledges of: Thelp against Jabin and were very eager to have the Korean revolutionary movement put under the red ting. This went so Sar that at an interminably long conference in Shanghai last year, the old, Korean revolutionary oFganization there was Broken tp, 2 comminise government. was} formed and Pak Yung-man, who} was not in attendance and' who was bitterly opposed to the whole) manauvre, was elected the Lenin Of the suptems executive committee, TED TREACHERY, In Siberia th Reds made mee] headway with the Koreans. After the Japanese invaded the Hun-chun district and patrolled with gendarmes, thousands of Koreans poured across the us. sign border, taking their arma with them. "To these the Reds wore at first hostile but later very conciliatory. 'They promised them strong support in a revolution against Japan and cajoled, them into participating in' the' cam-_peign in the Maritime Province jority-five" thousand" Koreans were underarms. iii the Har.
Iman, "Nikolsk and Were takens The Russians participating the campaign were very few.
Several thousand of thes Koreans were] native Siberians and hed served] with the Russian armies on the German front. The resp were] from Fenatien and Kirin.
When the fighting wag all over] the Russians brought in their own Red troops, split up the Korem units into, small detachments, distributed them as widely as poss!- blo and then, without warning, disarmed them and disbanded! them, turning them adrift: without pay, food or clothes,
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