What a joke it is! Here we have the theft of half the old Chinese Empire being carried out as deftly and quietly as the pocket while Chinese and "patriots," trained and inspired by the thieves over a period of six of seven years, create a diversion in the Ports by yelping about sovereign Fights and racial equality, by Genouncing capitalism, imperiatiem fand militarism. While Kalgan packed with Red Russian cavalry and artillery and supplies are coming in from Mongolia, the Western Returned Students Club in Peking Mr. Malone, the British Communist, for the delight of hearing "imperialism" denounced and Chinese equality passionately asserted from foreign lips, lends its premises to gatherings of agitators paid by Karakhan and gloats over Russian promises of the humiliation peri American and the imof the imperialistic Briton, the im-
perialistie Japanese. In another branch of the Russian service, unpaid and unsolicited, work such. ited without permission. ardent volunteers as Dr. Balme of Shantung, Chaplain-General Gofort, of the People's Army, and the devout champions of China's rights who called upon Mr, MacMurray i" protest against the Taku ultimatum, weak and contemptible persons in 4 way, pitiable dupes in a way, but foreign investment in China also, because of the thousands and tenn of thousands here and abroad whose opinions upon China they shapo—opinions which present an adamant front to information and reason from other sources.
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