Five Advisers Employed by Governor: Penetration by Trade: White Russian Settlers in Difficulties The steady growth of Soviet Russian influence in Sinkiang is proving a matter of some concern to the Chinese authorities, while it has assumed Life and death proportions to the twenty thousand of more White Russians who have settled there since the Bolshevik revolution or who have dditted across the border from time to time as a result of opposition to the Soviet's policy of collective farm The province is so far in the hinterland'and its authorities appear #9 reluctant to allow foreign travellers} from China to enter it or to leave tt when they have got there, that authentic information about its affairs always dificult to obtain and when obtained 1s usually behind the times, According to news from India, con-'Grmed locally, the province Is now enjoying a spell of peace such its inhabitants have almost ceased to elleve possible. Mails from China are now reaching Kashgar, though some of it Is dated eighteen and more months ago. 'The new regime, estab-Ushed by the Military Defence Commissioner, General Sheng. Shih-tso, atter his' victory over the Moslem Tender, General Ma Chung-yin, seems to be working with reasonable ef-
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