It is suggested in certain quarters that Britain has purposely ex-Jaggerated the Bolshevist menace China, but on the other hand the Jmost responsible section of the press is fully alive to the implications of the policy of Soviet Russia in the Far East and express ox regret that the big Powers, owing to jealousies and dissensions among themselves, have been out-generalled in China by the agents of Moscow.
The "New York Times" in an editorial article emphasizes that, while the Russians are encouraging China to throw off the yoke of foreign "Tmperialists," Russia, of all foreign nations in China "has interfered most in the internal affairs of China in the past few years—Reuter.
New French Troops Sent Paris, Dec. 8.
Replying to an interpellation in the Chamber last night with regard to the movements of troops Painlevé declared that no soldier had left or would leave for China, The troops from Morocco had returned to the south-eastern districts of France, from where they had mostly been taken, That naturally involved movements of troops in the districts concerned because units must be re-distributed, it there was no need for the slightest anxiety in connexion with the matter—Reuter,
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