'There have been no more Board Meetings of the Railway Director: since they fell out over: Ivanof's action in' stopping: the train'. "service. "The reason is that there "has. been no quorum on account of the illness of twa of the Soviet representatives, amd now that one has recovered another, Comrade Heckel, has left for Peking. Really this is a most absurd state of affairs. This director left in Company with four Soviet experts, who have just! come from Moscow to attend the Sino-Soviet Conference, which is likely to be reopened shortly at the Capital. Kaslovsky, the U. S. vice-consul, also left by the same train. Whilst they were hefe.the Russian papers were forbidden by the police to print anything about the recent conflict on the railway.
Advices from Warsaw announce that Yourin, the firs Soviet pleni-Potentiory, "to Peking, has renounced Bolshevism and has settled in Poland. The man is a Pole and his proper name is Djevaltovaky, In 1917 the was a lieutenant the lith Army on the Galician front and he had a high reputa-officer. He fell under the spell of the Bolsheviks and began active propaganda at the front against the continuation of the war in his regiment and finally in the Army corps, which turned and fled at the first shock of the German counter-attack, thus leaving a large gap on the front undefended. "He afterwards held a high post in the Air Service. He Teaves Russia because he is dis-Government eorrup-
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