Sept. 5.
Mr. Jorre, the Soviet envoy, has taken his departure for Changchun, we understand, or if he has not already left the capital he is on the point of doing so. His brief stay in Peking, however, has not been without result, for, as announced by Mr. Rodney Gilbert would be the case, he has succeeded in gathering round about him the new intelligentsia of China. Mr. Tsai Yuan-pei, Chancellor of the Peking National University, has placed himself at the head of Mr. Joffe's admit included among whom are other professors of this institution and various Members of - Parliament. Mr. Joffe had only to come within this charmed circle and announce tautual esteem between China and"
Soviet Russia, bound as they were together by the ties of brotlierhood, and. the echoing replies were immediate and gratifying. We know from Mr. Gilbert the influence of this Chinese group as leaders of Young China and as superb propagandists, and we may take it - accordingly. that Mr. Joffe's campaign was formally latinched at the banquet given by him to these intelligentsia last week. The Soviet envoy made a virulent sjfeech, the greater part of which was devoted to a wild attack upon foreign journalists in China. To that we have already alluded, and accustomed as jour-rialists are to the slings and arrows of outrageous enemies there is no occasion to say very much more about that matter. Tt is the linking up of Mr. Joffe's remarks with what are described as the aims and aspirations of China which ought to interest us.
Tsai Yuan-pei did the necessary coupling up at the Peking banquet, speaking in this fashion "We have the greatest confidence in Russia, and do not at all believe in what the foreign press is trying to say and discredit Russia. It is quite clear to us that from tha viewpoint of new diplomacy there is no room for all this which forms the contents of the old diplomacy, which aims at securing special rights and privileges, and which is inconsistent with the. new diplomacy. The Chinese people are eagerly waiting for the time when all these so-called special rights and privileges in China will be abolished. These are the reasons why China is looking with hope upon Russia, which will show to other countries the right conduct towards China."
Ai a time like the present when the cry of sovereign rights in jeopardy instantly raises a great volume of applause, even when it happens to be nothing more than a matter for the benefit of a community at large, such as the dredge ing of the Soochow Creek, the attitude taken by Mr. Tsai Yuan-pei is bound to be popular.' A further element of popularity accrues to the movement by associating it with hostility to Japan. Mr. Lin Yen, " member of the House of Representatives.
given this additional touch to Mr. Joffe's campaign, and by finding a striking resemblance between Japan's seventeen points put forward at the Dairen Conference and the now rectified Twenty-One Demands, still further inducement is offered to the student body to welcome the So-
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