'A head has fallen in this latest Soviet purge which was well known to a large number of foreign residents in Chins, but particularly in Peiping, in the execution of M, Icon Karakhan, former' Soviet Minister to China, and. know! under the sobriquet of "The Black Prince' Karakhan was one of the original members the Soviet Foreign Service and in 1021, in the name of Soviet Russia, he offered to China the urn of the Chinese Eastern Railway without compensation and renounced Tussian extra ter: ritorial rights in China, Later he was appointed China, and on his arrival flutter in the Legation Nationalist' Army under com issimo Chiany Kaisshek, advised started its northward march, rear deal of hard but un avail ing work to try and persuade King Amnmanullah of Afghanistan to adhere to the Soviet system, ud later he was created Ambassador to Turkey.
those early days Karakhan was an outstand= mig figure in the People's Commissariat. for Foreign Atairs, then regarded as a model in stitution, "Ife was a most powerful ambassador, main, of great force of character and energy. His personal edutrol of the activities of Soviet ayonts all over China, and the seizure of docu ments in the raid on the USSR, Legation in Peiping some ten years ago veveaied the close personal control he exercised over all {orm of Soviet activity in China. For exactly what evince he has been' "liquidated the reports tp hand do not state, but the fact that he has fallen shows that even the most energetic and capable sons of the Soviet cannot hope to escape the penalty being too successful,
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