To the Editor of the "NortH-Diva DatLy News"
Sm,—Sir Percival Phillips' article Jacob Borodin" published in your issue of January 19 is an excellent illustration of usual Bolshevik procedure, Canton so far is the only place in China where the Bolsheviks have dared to act openly, we all know their work there and' all the trouble they have raised, still we are pas-ive and do not take any notice of what is doing on right around and the preparations that are being made by them in Shanghai, We all ought to have well remembered Dosser's and Dr. Fortu toft's work; well, there are many more like them now, who under pretence of carrying on business enterprises, are simply here for propaganda'as well as to make people believe that they can supply commo-Gities from Russia, that Russia's dustry in developing fast and that their products cam.compete with other countries. No doubt they are also keen on securing a foreign loan and must make a show.
I do not think that T would be far out, if I said that the business transactions done by most of the local Soviet commercial houses amount to next to nothing—Take for insthnda their petroleum enterprise, how much of their product have they delivered since they first opened their offices in Shanghe Russia never was w petroleum exporter of great international importance. It' stands to reason therefore, that with Russia's present luck of shipping facilities and Production cut down to 60 per cent. since Bolsheviks came to power, the natural outlet for the surplus of petroleum, if any, is Europe and there is no' need to open offices in such a distant country og China, Furthermore, if Russig's industry is in such a brilliant state, Comrade Volkoff tries to make us believe, most of the naphtha produced should be used by the Soviet for their own industrial re-Quirements, and for Russia's population of 130,000,000. (Sorry, Comrade Volkoft, 1 am forgetting that Kerosene is' too great a luxury for ordinary Soviet citizens, great many of whom had to go back to the tallow-dip or—the "lu china", a resinous pine stick, burned in flew of a candle), Taken again the Ussurt Railway Traffic Office, another Soviet enterprise. Common sense will tell you, that a railway running only: through a timber country, with no import or export to speak of, bet-Ween Harbarovsk and Vladivostok, and with foreign trade monopolized by the Soviet, would hardly get anything to transport from Shanghai, consequently an office here is either a sinecure or a bluff.
Then there is the Dulbank, with the Soviet Chervontzy, which is neither accepted by local merchants nor quoted-on the money market.
There are some more institutions of the same kind, but I do not want to take up too much of your valuable space. None of them really do what they pretend they do, they do not cover upkeep expenses, still they pretend that they trade and carry on, not trade, but their real work—propaganda—and the best of it is, that we all know that they are working against us col-lee tively and individually, still there is nothing done to stop their illegal work, Bolshevik's perseverance in implanting themselves in Capitalistie countries is nothing more than a part of a plan to get hold of the Capitalist's hated gold, which is indispensable to them.' Being experts in. trouble in
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