Nov. 27.
To-pax's lengthy letter from M. Goddard epitomizes a con-of no small interest vellers'' that will past through the institution in a very few years. The plans of the new school have yet to be finally approved by Peking, but it is, to all intents and purposes, an accomplished fact.
Were it not possible to believe that [Britain is rapidly awakening to a full appreciation of the actual position the prospect would be distressing to those who realize the full extent of what can be done in this connexion. It may be that British phlegm on this and other questions has developed into a positive and heart-rending lethargy, although this can only apply to those at home. Out here' the British commercial community realizes what it has to face, knows that the Americans: and French have now obtained! such @ lead as may never be reduced and realizes that an! enormous effort has to be made; if matters are to be placed on a! satisfactory basis. It is not for}
As will be remembered, this controversy gave rise to a rather exciting episode last July, when the Russian Consul-General in Shanghai, with the aid of the municipal police, expelled the Bolshevik crews of the strs. Simferopol, Georgi and Petiza, and announced that thenceforward the fleet was to be subject only to M. Fedoroff, the agent at Tsuruga. This action and announcement were the result of explicit orders from the then Russian Minister in Peking.
The dispute as to whether the fleet should take orders from the Vladivostok Board or from M.
Fedoroff arose as follows. Before the revolution, the head offices of ithe Fleet were at Petrograd. After the fall of Kerensky the directors fled, to London, Paris and Constantinople: and in the last named city a> board of [management appears subsequently to have been reassembled. During the Koltchak regime in Siberia a board was established lack of money, for the French at Vladivostok. We do not know
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