Believed "Face-saving" Device of the Hankow Government Monpay, June 20.
Local Chinese were greatly interested in a telegraphic report which was received over the weekend to the effect that the Wuhan Government has issued an order {for the dismissal of Comrade Boro-
Jdin, chief Soviet adviser to the s0- jealled Nationalist administration there.
The order is said to have been handed. to Borodin personally by Mr. Eugene Chen, Minister of Foreign Affairs, who informed him that his presence in Hankow was no longer wanted. Borodin, ac-Jcording to the report, accepted the Jorder very coolly and made a request that the Government should fallow him to remain in Hankow until his wife, who is still a pri oner of the Ankuochun, is out of danger. 'This request' was subsequently granted.
Many Chinese are inclined to belove that the order is simply a screen and that it was issued on Borodin's own suggestion in order to pacify his political enemies and put an end, temporarily at least, to the attacks on the Wuhan Gov-
Jernment and the outery against the Bolsheviks,
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