As telegraphed, the events 0c-curing in Peking on the oth instant, the date of the Republican anniversary, were not. specially striking, consisting mainly of a. review of the troops by President Li Yung-hung. These details have evidently not been nearly sufficient for one set of politicians in China, and "Shanghai Life," a paper published in Russian here and well-known Bolshevik sympathies, seems to have succeeded in embroidering the account in vivid crimson. In the first place its report of the proceedings, supplied by the Delta News Agency, indicates a strong pro-Russian: sentiment among the masses of Po-—king, banners being displayed demanding an agreement with the Soviet. That may very likely have been the case in isolated instances, but it is impossible to believe the report when it states that the President. himself attended a meeting of workmen presided over by Mr. Tsai Yuan-pei. He is there said to have made a speech which was constantly interrupted by demands for a promise to fight the reactionary militarists, and when he attempted to withdraw he was prevented by the demonstrators. In the course of this meeting "'remarks concerning Russia were loudly cheered." Thus the report reads, and we must decline to believe that the President was subjected to the indignities mentioned or that his supporters would have tolerated his being mixed up in such an affair. The whole. report may be put down to pure pre paganda with the intention of showing the proletariat of he capital in a strong Bolshevist frame of mind. There are two reasons why such a report should be published. Firstly it may help to- convince wavering - Russians here of the advance of the Soviet in popularity in China; secondly
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