This does not begin to exhaust the catalogue of rumours which cluster about the present directors' meeting. It is simply designed to give the public some idea of their general character and to indicate that a great many of them are inspired by nothing more substantial than chronic suspicion of the Japanese and the French who are interested in the Russo-Asiatic Bank. Suspicions of French policy and of French cooperation with the Japanese are by no means confined to the Japanese. The old Rusgian_ community, solidly anti-Bolshevik as it is, is nevertheless divided in its adherence to or criticism of the policies of the Russo-Asiatic Bank and is as suspicious of French-Japanese conspiracy as the Bolsheviks themselves. Whatever ground there may be for these suspicions—and the officers of the Russo-Asiatic Bank naturally say there is none—they constitute such an effective check upon the doings of the directors that it scarcely seems possible that any measure prejudicial to Russian interests in
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.