M. Yourin's Record—Light on Rupture with Prince Koudacheff—Attitude of the Powers A_ well-informed correspondent j they were charged, and, having sends us the following details of the career of M. I. Yourin, the head of the mission which is nego-fiating, ostensibly, for a commercial treaty between China and the Siberian Republic. These details throw important light upon an episode which has already led to China's breaking off relations with Prince Koundacheff, the Russian Minister. addressed a Note to this effect to the Russian Legation, the Waichiaopu considers it desirable that the Government should issue Order announcing that the Russian Minister and Russian Consuls in China will hereafter no longer be treated as diplomatic agents by this country."
Friexpsair ror Russias.
M. Yourin, we are told, is of Polish origin but is a native of Petrograd. His real name. is Dzevaltovsky. Under the Imperial regime he was a commissioned officer ju the Imperial Guards, He was a revolutionary propa-gaudist in his regiment and worked for the overthrow of the Imperial Government. Then during the Kerensky offensive on the Galician front he became a very important figure in the rebellion against the Kerensky Government, taking action at the front which is said to have decided the army's attitude and which made possible the Bolhsevik coup d'éiat. His services were recognized by the Soviet and he was appointed direc-for of Military Education in Russia, and was put in direct charge of all military schools. His record from that time to the present is unknown. He is a short, thick-set man between 45 and 50, partially bald but heavily bearded. He is of the fair-haired Russian peasant type, but is evidently well educated and speaks French fluently, a little German and has a reading knowledge of English.
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