Little news of importance comes direct from Canton, and while correspondents. in Peking supply plentiful indications of the trend of events there, they have so far not touched upon one interesting and important feature. This is the marked attention which Moscow is paying to the Kuangtung trium-pirate, and its leader especially. China is in no sense negligible to the Soviet, in fact it occupies a notable place in Bolshevism's full programme, and assuredly M. Yourin was not sent to Peking for the good of his health. Then there were the old rumours that Dr-Sun Yat-sen had received letters from Moscow—an allegation which he rather laughed at as ridiculous than formally denied, and it is a fact that his opponents, making the most of his well-known socialistic tendencies, have been ready to credit the truth of the report. There is, however, a much more important circumstance in the case, namely, that, while in power at Canton, Mr. Wen Tsung-yao received a long communication from the Soviet, inspired by Chinese who had some sort of position at Moscow. From the nature of his position at Canton—the result largely of an arrangement with the late Tuchun Li Hsun—Mr. Weén felt no inclination to reply, and so remained silent. The present situation will be well known to the Chinese apostles of Bolshevism at the fountain head, and it will be surprising, to put it mildly, if they have not already renewed the attempt to establish a foothold in the disaffected stronghold of Canton.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.