Comrade Borodin Powerful Though Absent In an interview with the Chinese press, Japanese Journalists who recently returned from South China have stated that Comrade Borodin, the Russian high political adviser to the Nationalist Government, left for Tientsin on the 4th instant. According to reports, he is to return to the south in March. The: total number of the Russians employed by: the Nationalist Government is said to be about 80, of which number five or six are in Swatow, Tu spite of the absence of Comrade Borodin, his influence in Canton is still greatly felt. "The highest organ of the government is the Central Executive of the Kuomintang, but Gen," Chiang Kai-shek, Commander-in-Chief of the Revolutionary Forces, is the real backbone of the Government, at least in the dictation of military forces, Of the civil administration Mr, Wang Ching-wei, present Chairman of the Executive' Committee, Mr.
Sung, brother-in-law of the late Dr. Sun Yat-sen, and Mr. Tan Ping-san, prominent' Communist labourer, at the head," he concluded.
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