Affairs at Moscow apparently considered this communication impertinent for it immediately slated the Mukden Consul-General ing on the list of officials to be replaced.
The Soviet papers are strangely lent over the situation which has arisen, merely giving a paraguay or two that in an exchange of correspondence between the Mukgen Authorities and Comrade Podolsky, it has been brought to light that Comrade Karakhan's withdrawal has been insisted upon by Mukden, Tr has leaked out from Russia that there are great dissensions in Soviet circles over the collapse of Bolshevik prestige in China, as a result of which a wholesale change in Soviet relations with this country will be effected in the very near future. It is considered that the suggestion of the Chinese authorities that Comrade Karakhan has acted all along on his own is very diplomatic one and is likely to elicit an acknowledgment from the Soviet government that that so, for it is hardly likely that Moscow would admit otherwise, thereby placing its position in more awkward state.
That Marshal Chang has all the trump cards in his possession is a fact not only acknowledged by all observers but by local Soviet agents as well. in Europe, the Soviet government is a nonentity in international relations, in the Near and Middle East, ft has had no success' and now, in China, its prestige has complete: ly collapsed. This is now the cause of great discord between the various Commissars, who are blaming one another for the Soviet government's predicament.
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