Here in the North, the situation is somewhat different, The Red Russians in the Far East may not be in " position to resent very factually the defeat of their mer-canary armies, the discrediting of their hireling puppet, the Christian General, the persecution of their purchased agitators and the humilia tion of their Ambassador. They may not be prepared to fight Japan Manchuria nor to invite international intervention by making open war on Peking. But they are very close. They not only hold of Mongolia, but they have a foot. hold in Manchuria and at least a tochold in Chinese Turkestan; and, fas everyone knows, they cherish ambitious plans for further penetration and alienation of the Northwest. These plans are "imperialistic" if any designs against China ever were. They are not essentially Red ambitions, but schemes of Ru: sian national expansion, as every Chinese of intelligence knows and as all of them except those actually in Russian pay are only too glad to let_us know, The present war against" the Kuominchun which both Chang Tso-lin and Wu Pei-fu are so eager to carry through to a finish and which both secretly plan to carry fon into Mongolia when the f areas have "been.recovered, counter move against Russi expansion and encroachment up Chinese territories. It is no word battle for legitimate "aspirations, sovereign rights, racial equality ani the like, such as the treaty port Chinese delight to organize ai the Occidental under the protection and patronage of the concessions, but a belated, loose-jointed, badly organized and badly directed of. fort to recover from a real and determined enemy vast terri all but in the possession of the pur-
New Manchuria" includ all of Mongolia, inner and outer, the administrative areas outside the Great Wall, from Jehol to Pactou, the upper Yellow River Valley from Paotou westward well into Tibet, Kansu, the Tsaidam and Koko Nor areas of northern Tibet, and Chinese Turkestan. The actual seizure of this vast new Empire by military force Russia could and would execute to-morrow if it were not #0 conspicuous and if such an act were not likely to disillusion her friends within the proletariat of Europe, Great Britain and America and make intervention possible. The peaceful but rapid penetration of these areas behind the seroon of a Chinese People's Army, led by well subsidized traitors who know how to snivel with the missionaries on the one hand and gain support abroad and who are equally adept, the other hand, in the use of the demoralized native students and of the returned students with their irrational anti-foreign bias, is much easier and safer.
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