Yesterday morning at 10 o'cl>: the new Russian Ambassador was formally received by the Prince Regent and the Empress: ceremony prior to Comrade setting out for the Palace were hho was received is worthy of mextion, in that it had all the sear of pomp that the Soviet is supposed to have eliminated as "bourgeois" end unworthy of the proletariat.
A big scarlet-painted coach, with gold-braid-wearing dignitaries and outriders, was sent by the Imperial Household Department, As soon as Comrade Kopp came out, dressed in that might easily have be-rial Russia of prea gruff order brought the horsemen to attention. Another order and they lowered heir "lances, from which few of red and white—
Japan's national colors-—in salute.
The scarlet coach with the new Jenvoy and two of his secretaries) was surrounded by the horsemen and, then proceeded to the palace which is only a short distance from the Russian Embassy. Policemen and mes were posted along the partly in order to avoid any. thing like a Communist demonstration and partly to safeguard the new Ambassador from possible violence at the hands of Japan's, anti-Reds.
The Prince Regent received the new Ambassador, shook hands with bim, and had a brief talk with) him. Comrade Kopp was then. received by Her Majesty the Em. press.
The Manchurian Railway Test The same evening Comrade Kopp entertained. press men to tea the Imperial Hotel and it was here! that he said that the test of Russo-Japanese relations will depend on Manchuria and Mongolia, Urging all the Japanese news paper men to bring their influence to ear upon securing recognition by the Japanese Government of Russian "rights" in North Manchuria and Mongolia, Comrade Kopp said "The acid test of the relations between Russia and Japan will be whether the " Changehun-Tsitsihar railway is to be constructed or not. Should the building of this line be proceeded with, there will be direct competition between the South Manchurian Railway interests and ose of the Chinese Eastern, resulting in loss to both lines."
Comrade Kopp then went on to Jawell on the great treasures that Jawait Japan by exploiting the Siberian markets and the concessions Russia is willing to grant! Tapanese corporations. Russia, ac-[cording to him, will prove to be a Valuable source of raw materials for Japan, a good market to sell manufactured goods, while he deared that from the timber conces-Sons Japanese basines houses stand to reap enormous profits—a form of fianguage that struck the onlooker fas strange when coming from the mouth of a Bolshevik who is not Fupposed to countenance big business and the attendant profits to The Soviet envoy then went on to plead that s little more Bolshevik:
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