On top of this came the arrest a week ago of two parties of Russians in Harbin who were travelling to Peking under diplomatic passports issued by Chita and vised by Chinese authorities. One of these parties is said to have carried a complete apparatus for counter-felting Bank of China notes, while another carried large quantities of gold and Romanoff notes together with a supply of what the Chinese deemed to be Bolshevistic propaganda literature. The latter party is said to have been headed by one of Mr. Yourin's secretaries, the agent who was supposed to be bringing back to Peking the endorsed draft of the trade agreement with China.
Whether the charges against these travellers are sound or not, whether they will be in a position to justify the character of their baggage or not, their arrest served, after the arrest of the "Red" editor, to arouse the radical Russian press to a pitch of animosity which should suffice to-convince the Ministry of Justice that the Chinese administration of the railway zone does not have the cordial support of any particular faction of Russians.
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