Not so very long ago Comrade Joffe, the Soviet representative, failed to secure permission to land in Hongkong, and it is reported that others of the Soviet mission in China likewise were unsuccessful when applying for visas for a similar purpose. To-day the rumour is said to be current in Peking and Harbin that when this happened Comrade Joffe and his fellows announced that Russia would take its quid pro quo sooner or later. A case has just occurred where a British subject, a resident of Shanghai, while in Harbin a few days ago tried to obtain a passport to proceed to Vladivostok. The process, he discovered, was to take six weeks and more. First of all the people at Harbin bad to collect photographs and details concerning
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