Sensational Report in Chinese Newspapers Shanghai, Sept. 12.
The conclusion of several secret agreements between Gen. Chin Haujen, former chairman of the Sinkiang Provincial Government, and Soviet Government, by which Gen. Chin pledged to give Soviet traders absolute freedom of domijcile and in the conduct of trade in different places of Sinkiang Province, were reported yesterday b} the Chinese newspapers whic jelaimed to have made sensational revelations regarding the Soviet Government's. influence that Chinese province.
The Chinese "papers continued that the Central Government was now studying the question care-her which probably does not, against. Urumcit.
The White ily, planning to obtain the nulliceed 10,000 at the outside, There fare the Bolsheviks represented by Tumerous consular officials and their underlings together, with agents of the Soviet Trading Company. The rest are White Russians,
Russian Turkestan ime Bhnviands of whom emigrate fro the 'Bolshevik Terror in 1917. Their influence in Sinkiang arises from the fact that the Chinese authorities have forced several thousand of these white Russians, under threat of otherwise handing' them over to the Bolsheviks, to surve as, soldiers and help in suppressing the never-ending Mahommedan rebellions. These. White Russian troops, amounting to about 4,000 men, are the only. really efficient fighting force in that whole vast area, and the badly-armed and disorganised Mahommedans ave quite incapable of standing up to them. It is sol ly due to them that the provincial Ale to keep, its head, above. wat ernment in recent years wa'
and that a few patches of com tively peaceful count were from. the rebellion and Bharehy"veigning in the greater the province," But reliable fighting force was likely to act of their being the only, rally render them an even greater danger to the authorities than the Mahommedan rebels themselves,
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