Meanwhile Moscow was, of course, planning ways of saving something from the wreck of the expensive Soviet machine in China and was sending out instructions. Shanghai destroying evidence and new, methods of getting round obstacles were being devised. The transfer' of funds from Russfa became in itself a problem after the arrest of Madame Borodin and the couriers, the raid in Peking and the picketing of Soviet establishments in Shanghai. A special courier, sent out by the Third International from Moscow, Yestchenko by name, arrived in Hankow on May 15 in the thick: of the panic. He was equipped with 1 diplomatic passport and carried a cheque for Gold $150,000, transferred from an account in Paris and designed, according to instruct meant to be read by anyone who searched the courier, for the. pur-ichaso of brick tea for the "Karsky Expedition," Borodin Already much worried by the "siege" of the Consulate and the Dalbank Shanghai and the arrival of this cheque was the occasion for a conference because no one know what sort of a watch was being kept upon the Dal Bank's affairs nor /when, it might be cut off from com. manication with the local Com-
T understood that it was decided that the newly arrived fonds should be deposited in other foreign banks. and later transfer bank. The fall gram was recei which brought some relief, since it [contained an account of the destruction of all documents bearing upon Borodin's finances and of the trans-for of less damaging records to a local commercial agent of the U.S. 'S.R. From this time forth no incriminating records were kept _or sent by couriers and the special courier service for the despatch of Borodin's accounts of receipts and disbursements through Vladivostok was discontinued.
This courier Yestehenko, at the meeting which was held on the evening of his arrival gave us some gossip of Moscow's plans and doings in Shangh: He said that a num. El ber of new "comrades" had arrived who were very enthusiastic about fnelping to rescue the Communist revolution from destruction. He said that in Shanghai it was thought Joy the Soviet agents that the decuments seized in Peking had lost their valve, since the Metropolitan Police had kept them too long before publishing them and had thereby given the Soviet Consulates in Harbin, Mukden and elsewhere an opportunity to spread a rumour, through the expenditure of a little money, to the effect that the documents' were false and had been! written under Merkuloff's direction by "white" experts in forgery summoned from Shanghai. Borodin here expressed the opinion that the Shanghai Reds were talking _rionnse if they said-that the spreading] of such rumours' would convince either the foreigners or the Ciinese that the documents were forged. He thought that if wide publicity were given in the Chinese press fan assertion that thee documents [were fabricated evidence it might carry some weight, but that to get! such publicity it would have to bought. Yestchenko conveyed cow's instructions for the dispositions of the more important agents fin central China in an emergency. These did not run counter to the plans made but stipulated that Limanoff was to remain at Nan-Jchangfu as General Chu Peicteh's adviser, that Vilde was to remain [with Borodin and Koslovsky with Araloff—prospective Soviet Ambas-fander to the southern Government.
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