Peking, Dec. 4.
It is very rarely in Peking that one meets a Russian who will discuss Russian politics with any degree of impartiality. All of our Russians here are pronouncedly one thing or another, and are wholly unwilling to concede that any good thing can come out of Russia until the champions of their particular faction have exterminated their opponents throughout the length and breadth of the land. Russians do not discuss the affairs of their home land dispassionately; they are all too intensely pro-something or anti-something and_the inquirer who would like to understand something of Russia's troubles goes from one to the other and is soon lost in a maze of accusations and recriminations, supported on all sides by formidable references to recent history, involving names of places and persons with which we are none too familiar. It is, therefore, a real satisfaction to come upon a Russian with what we might call a judicial mind and to hear him outline for us what is really going on and what the issues are in Siberian politics, A Jupicrat Osserver.
The above is _a preface to the comments upon Siberian matters which Professor M. Golovatchev, Professor of International Law in Vladivostok University, who is visiting Peking to make a personal study" Of the condition of Russians in China, has to say about politics in the Far Eastern Republic. Professor Golovatchev was a member of the first organization formed in Omsk in 1918 to oppose the spread of Bolshevism in Siberia. The first clause in his political creed was then the establishment of an autonomous democratic Siberia, and to this he still adheres, though he found it impossible to agree with the various opponents of Bolshevism who have figured in Siberia since 1918 and long ago withdrew to Vladivostok and abandoned politics, Nothing is so interesting in Eastern Siberia now as the events of the imniediate present. Asked whether Vladivostok would join with Chita and if so why, Professor Golovatchev gave the' following outline of conditions:
"The Visdivostok Government coming to a decision on this question will have to take the Japanese into "{f Japanese th fluence were climinated Vladivostok would probably unite with Chita. There are four political factions on the sasboard—the peasants, the communists, the social-revolationsrine 2B} and the party of the right'—the reactiocariee. The peasants are heartily tired of civil war and are so eager for
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