Of recent years, the power and influence of the Soviet has been rowing in the Far East. Nanking's action in occupying the Chinese Eastern Railway, run as a joint Sino-Russian concern, and turning the Soviet members of the Railway out lock, stock and barrel at first hailed as a distinct, halt to Soviet schemes in the Far Hest and as the prelude to China, "But, when scanned more closely in the light of what has occurred daring just the past two weeks, Russia hat scored a tremendous strategic, moral and physical victory.
Strategically, Russia has _managed to have the Nanking regime overwhelmed by its enemies, for there is not, the slightest doubt) that behind the revolt after revolt of the provincial chieftains against the so-called central Government at Nanking, there was the shadow of Moscow; physically, Russin has fed to separate Mukden and Nanking and compel Mukden to bow to Russia and accept the Soviet' demands in regard to a settlement. of the Sino-Soviet dispute; and, morally, Russia will have in the new aligning of the forces that will rule China a preponderant clement which, even if it Goes not make open cause with the Soviet, is nevertheless known' to be in sympathy with the mischief-reaking doctrines of Moscow, for all the indications go to show that the Left Wing of the Kuomintang iN be in the saddle,
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