For every one of these staff officers in office or in supposedly indolent residence in Harbin, any ex officer of the 11th Red Caucasian army can find on the published lists of the C. E. R.*clerieal staff 8 good handful—four or five at Jeast—of each man's reliable subordinates. This has, in fact, been checked over and done. So we have in north Manchuria a very closely knit family unit, as it were, dating back to 1921, all but one being well schooled and—trained Imperial Army officers, We naturally look for the army that is to keep Pace with such a staff assembly and, from Red publications again, it ig to be discovered that in Eastern compensate for Red Army reduction. This volunteer system is of course being extended to the Chinese Enstern Railway zone, and, according to Red estimates, there are now the zone available for military service in emergency 18,000 members of Red labour unions. 2,000 wunists, and 2,000 pos-'A potential total No great secret is made of the fact that the former officers of the Cavkas Army are distributed from Manchuli to Pogranitchnaya while the high command is concentrated at Harbin, arid that very excellent organization is pre pared in emergency to take over ithe: potential militia of a strength Now Mukden is not ordinarily so well informed on Russian affairs in North Manchuria as it should he. The Chinese officers appointed to high administrative posts on the railway have been cheven in the past for their knowledge of Russi and the Russian language, without knowledge of or reference. to the fact that many of them have relatives in Russia who are hostages in hand. Higence" is very often of a character to soothe rather than to enlighten Mukden and, since the death of Chang-Tso-Jin, the policy here has been to let sleeping dogs lie in the north. This awakening to a knowledge of the nuilitia organization and of the systematic distribution of the 11th Canenxtan Army personnel has, however, created a stir that seems ikely to result in action of rather spectacular character. A "elean-up" of the Chinese personnel is threatened and it is hinted that there may be some Russian arrests. With a view to the fitness of things the local Chinese anticipate that whatever is going to happen wil happen on the Red November holiday.
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