The measures that the local Eh nese authorities, acting on instruetions issued by the Civil Governor: of Kirin Province, are taking con-propaganda on the part of.
Russians, is causing quite Jot of alarm among Russians who' are not oven Soviet citi The whole trouble is that there are: very few of the better elsas of Chinese officials who have much knowledge of the Russian language, and that Chinese of the lower class, with no scruples, thanks to their: Knowledge of eolloqual Russian obtain official positions, which they exploit at the expense' of others. One cannot expect anything better from these men, seeing that they were boys, cooks and servants of formed Russian officials and officers of the ald regime, and have acquired the failings of the latter without their merits. In the second place the Chinese officials are too apt to listen to the utterings of their Russian Jemployees, who also have their own cing, that when they. were Russian subjects they were but small fry.
Many of them are of the lower classes and whit better than the com-
Imperial epoch with the steadiest voice. There and then the whole nation threw itself at the fect of its future ruler. The most grave problems are unquestionably confronting the country; but no other Emperor has come upon the throne sith "the whole nation so united and confident in the belief that. alt
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