Opposed to all the demoralization which Russian influence hay helped to work in China during recent years and to. a Russian supported Army in actual possession of the "New Manchuria," we have nothing but the lose and precarious allianto of Chang Tso-lin and Wu Pei-fu, which everyone of a few hundred subordinates is doing everything. to steer on the rocks, and an allied army of go little real military worth that its operations between Peking and Hankow elicit cries of anguish, from foreign military observers, Under these conditions the Peking attitude towards the foreigner, towards foreign relations and particularly towards China's treaty obligations, ig likely to be a much more conciliatory and reasonable attitude than Canton's or than that dictated by Karakhan through Feng hsiang and Wang Cheng-ting st autumn. The need of foreign moral support and, if possible, of material support, in this critical situation is felt "now and will ba more keenly felt as time goes on id the actual situation beconwen clearer to the leaders.
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