So long, probably, as Russia is in a state of flux and there are refugees in adjacent countries unable to find work to keep them occupied, will rumours of plots and risings against the Soviet be rife. To-day the Chinese and Japanese papers are giving a certain amount' of prominence to one such rumour, and by quoting figures of thousands of White Russians scattered over the two countries who might be brought into the field, succeed in creating a story plause ible in parts. The weak point is, of course, how these cohorts are to be armed, where they are to find the guns and transport needful for the first-class battle which their numbers would indicate to be in contensplation. The most interesting and least improbable version of the plot so far received comes from Japan and is to the effect that it will take the form of; a raid on Vladivostok from
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.