Headquarters of two groups subsidized by Irkutsk and Chita respectively were moved to Shanghai and in November. the local police became aware of the growth of a colony of Korean conspirators ein Shanghai: having Siberian affiliations. The Chita group was represented by a_Russian-speaking Korean named Kim Lip, witn aliases beyond count, who arrived in Peking carly last summer with Russian gold to the value of $400,000. He lived for the most Part in the Western Hills, while:: t Peking, and devoted all' his energies to the conversion of his gold into negotiable silver.
This generous sum naturally focussed upon him the attention of all of his compatriots of whatever party. What might be called the orthodox Korean revolutionary party, which then stood out firmly against compromising relations with the Bolshevists, sought Kirn Lip in the hope of showing him the error of his ways and of adding his fund to the general revolutionary fund. The Irkutsk agents, who were labouring in this vineyard in return for travelling expenses and one hundred mexican dollars each monthly, naturally hoped to better their condition by amalgamation with the lucky Kim Lip. He evaded all parties, however, and when overtaken in Shanghai by the Irkutsk folk, refused to divide.
Ho was therefore accused of; malappropriation and was shot in Pootung road on February 11_ of this year. It would appear, however, that the funds, or whatever was left of them, did not pass into the hands of the irkutsk group, but descended to the other members the Chita representation and have since been augmented, or will be augmented, by "a sum of $600,000 brought by a Russian who is us-suming the direction of the activities of this group.
The assumption is that the men who shot Mrs. Snyder are not members of the Chita group but of the Irkutsk group, working under the direction of a Russian whose name, transmitted through Chinese characters, is something like Simioski- The Koreans in custody now admit that they belong to a Bolshevist group. They claim to have come from Peking and the, one who gives the name of Kim claims to be the leader of a Korean Communist party in the metropolis, and to have come here on March 24, to represent his group in the tragedy enacted on the Bund on Tuesday. Neither he nor An, who has now decided that his name is Wu, will admit, however, that he has been in Siberia or that he knows any of -the well known leaders of either the orthodox re-
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