Quite apart from the politico) aspect of the creation of the Tu Eastern Republic, there is an economic side which is singularly engrossing. And to M. A. Hodoroff, Far Eastern Representative of the Dalta News Agency, who is at present in Shanghai we indebted for some interesting li formation of the newest of publics. But first a word about M. Hodoroff himself. Behind an engaging personality is the history of a man who paid for the opposition which he maintained to the old Russian réyime. A lawyer and a journalist to boot, his political fortunes landed him in a Siberian gaol, his patriotis: n placed him in the armies of his country during the Great War, and now he comes for the furtherance of the economic aims of the new republic, in search of means for opening that trade which his country sorely needs.
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