Readers who were in the East when Koltchak's resistance to the Reds! collapsed in Siberia will remember} that a General Annenkoff, with a fairly large force of White troopers, took refuge in Mongolia and, after an adventurous career in the Altai, entered Chinese Turkestan] and was prevailed upon by Yang Tuchun to surrender his arms. Most of the officers and men were paraded across China to Manchuria where they were turned adrift, but] Annenkoff himself was long imprisoned in Urumchi and was so badly treated that stories of his sad:
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were ventilated in the foreign press, When he was supposed to be dying, General Annenkoft was finally released and came as far into China as Lanchowfu, in Kansy, where he lived until quite recently recuperating his health. A few months ago when Kansu was taken by|over by Feng Vu-hsiang and the] Reds were given access to the province, Annenkoff unexpectedly turned Bolshevik and joined his former enemies. He is now somewhere in Mongolia, if not actually in Kalgan, presumably waiting his chance ts get even with Yang Tuchun and other gaolers and tormentor Meanwhile a great many of his men have at least nominally become Chinese subjects and have joined Chang Chung-chang's White Russian "ladder corps." Apart from the 500 cadets and 100 Cossacks who are in Tsinan or Tientsin, Chang Chung-chang has about 4,000 Russians on the front at points north of Peking. These men are the survivors of various Siberian White armies, but the majority of them are said. to be from Annenkoff's former command. One of the first uses that the-Reds made of Annenkoff, there fore, was to get him to write a letter to his former followers, telling how and why he had come to join his enemies and exhorting them to go and do likewise. It is assumed that this letter was brought to Peking by Comrade Serebriakoff, for} it appeared here in pamphlet form was here and, when he returned to' Manchuria, he had copies with him which he presented to friends there, Ways That Are Dark There are all: sort of ways' of getting Russian pamphlets printed
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