However plausible the above evidence may be, it does not allay the suspicion that there is much more behind it all, and that this most the political conditions are very unsatisfactory that there may be sufficient rivalry between the part-fes, who have possession of the city, to make united action difficult, Liu Hsiang left the city Sunday. "His presence gave at least the semblance of a central auth ority. Monday and Tuesday, Chéngtu passes through these "White chapel" experiences. It is feared that there is some kind of a society formed to carry on, hence foreigners gre warned to take every precau-in China, so the sources of the bock-Tet occasioned no par¥eular inquiry although afew persons were curious enough to ask where the local Bolsheviks did their printing. A very little casual detective work revealed the fact that this _partieular pamphlet, inciting Fengtien's White mercenaries to join up with the Reds and turn on their Chinese employers, was printed at the Russian Orthodox Missin press, the Mission itself—the most obdurately White of all White Russian institutions in China. _Nothing could have inspired the Reds to go out of their way to use the Mission press, which must have taxed all their ingenuity, except a desire to play a trick' upon the Bishop, and in this they surely succeeded because the venerable head of the Mission was so annoyed and chagrined that he, had his premises barricaded and giarded as though for @ siege, and those who have had reason to call on him about religious matters have had no Mttle difficulty in effecting an entrance.
Such incidents as this help us a great deal in understanding the psychology of persons like Karakhan and in accounting for many of the things that he says and does. It would be impossible, for instance, for a sincere fanatic. to pen such a letter as he recently wrote to Mr. Hsiung Hsi-ling in which sweeping denials are made of facts which are Well substantiated as his own presence in China; but it is easy to account for such a letter when one can envisage him as a maliciously playful rascal with his tongue ever in his cheek, Som 65 tons of military supplies ]were despatched from Hangchow to Nanking on Thursday for the-use Marshal Sun Chuan-fang's army.
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