In our leading article on March 3 we gave prominence to the belief that the captors of Urga were the Bolsheviks, and not the White Russians. It is of interest to mention that from another source information has reached Shanghai that that view is correct. At the same time we must also state that another section of Russians here believe that Baron Ungern has taken the place, but they point out that he should not be considered a leader of the Whites. It may be an uncharitable view, but they take up the attitude that, Baron Ungern is to be regarded as a bandit chief (which in this case puts him on a level with some very great men_ in history) and that any kingdom he may establish will be an independent Ungern kingdom, having relation neither to Whites nor Reds, Whoever holds Urga, that place has no connexion with the great national liberation movement which it was hoped: to bring off on February £8. We know that this was attempted, that risings against the Soviet took place, of such a serious nature that the wireless messages from Moscow Were suspended for several days. if, indeed, they have been renewed. The movement has been only Partially successful, but its inauguration is important, because, as we are in a position to state, various Bolshevik commissars are interested in it. These men are -commissars because they must live, and although they are working under an anarchical government, they yet hope to see a restoration of the monarchy i i This which occurred in Moscow and Petrograd have a special importance, as being entirely different from the ordinary manifestations of discontent on the part of workmen. They give us hope that at no remote date the rule of Lenin and Trotsky will be overthrown, but we must in the meantime be careful to keep events in Mongolia apart altogether from this great White movement which is fermenting.
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