Agents of an entirely different class operated among officers and commercial men in the hotels, clube and other public places. Those in the hotels were mostly Russians who spoke English or some European language with great fluency and who passed as Italians Austrians, Germans and what not. Under no. circumstances did they fever speak Russian, so that there were many workers who were themselves deceived by them and jand who, when they met them in Shanghai or other ports, were surprised to find that they spoke Russian as natives. These men were Rot propagandists, but pretended to share the political views of what
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