This simply cannot be explained 'The only possible answer to the public is the peremptory' squashing of General For has shown throughout his brief ascendency here a stubborn, reckless almost desperate spirit' which [leads the public to believe that his removal wilh not be lightly' achieved and that at the eleventh hour, when he realizes that he really finished he will do something. particularly ruthless. He is assojeiated with Kerakhan. Karakhan wants chaos in China, he wants to see all Occidentals here thoroughly, discomfited. The high priests of ¥es his cult see. no advantage for themselves in peace and prosperity abroad. They want trouble wherever they find it worth while to work at all. Nothing would suit. Kerakhan Detter than serious disorder Peking in which the present high authorities would be murdered and those Occidentals who were' not slaughtered were herded. into the Legation Quarter. It would be halled in Moscow asia great, triumph, in the East, 'Every intelligent Chinese ktiows [etl this and feels that the situation fairly' bristles with' promises of
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