Peking, July 19.
Extraordinary precautions are being taken on all routes of egress from Peking to guard against the escape of Mfrs. Borodin and her} comrades. Orders for their mediate apprehension live been Jcireulated to all police and military stations in Peking and Tientsin. The railways are being closely] watched, and all motor-car passe gers are examined on the Peking-'Tientsin road. It-would seem to be impossible for the ex-prisoners, if they are still in Peking, to slip through this net.
The Chinese contend that their! quarry are in hiding in the Soviet Embassy. Efforts have several times been made to establish proof, jut the Soviet officials ha ry ruse. It was hoped that the Embassy would accept delivery of the orders of re-apprehension, but is was handed back with' the polite intimation that it would be useless to leave it seeing that the! [consul did no know the whereabouts of his wanted comrades.
Thus the police are baffled. Which has made the warlords angrier than. ever. Chang Chung-chang has now added his contribution to the storm of abuse that the incident has called down upon the Iwckless heads of the civil authorities. Chang recommends much more drastic punishment of the judiciary than has yet been attempted. Enough of this nonsense, he has said. He himself has the captain, and crew of the Pamiat Lenina under' lock and key, and no judge is even likely to know the combination, whether Western-educated or not.
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