The situation in Peking, among folk who are by no means alarmists, is certainly taken seriously. The Russians of the Krotkovsky type want violence on a big scale and they are in a position to foment it. I they throw Feng Vu-hsiang into the discard, ak, they are apparently prepared to do now, they undoubtedly have subordinates whom
spent upon the Kuominchun, may. bbe considered wasted, the appropriations still go on and there is a reserve brigade at Nanyuan with the Russian characters "C..N.V." on their arm bands, which is supposed popularly to stand for Soviet People's Army. Although the last mob of ruffians employed got 50) coppers instead of the promised 60 cents a head, Peking is so very poor at this juncture, provisions and fuel are so high and there so many out of work, that there should not be the slightest difficulty in recruiting overnight an army of say 5,000 desperadoes at 50 coppers each who would be delighted, under police protection, to loot and harass every foreign establishment in the capital while a few thousand soldiers carried out a mock mutiny und contrived to drop some tons of ammunition into the Legation Quarter by accident.
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