The repers which has reached us from Tokio that Red propaganda is hard at work in China is very similar to one in circulation just a year ago. We have been warned by some that Bolshevism in China is a present danger, while others, and among them well-known Chinese, have scorned the thought, When the rumour was current year ago that Bolshevik activities were abroad in the country, the best proof offered was that' two agents, both Chinese, had been arrested in the interior while engaged in distributing literature. Then, it was said, the Bolshevism they offered to the inhabitants was of a special brand, in which several features unlikely to appeal to the Chinese mind were eliminated, while the ideal of a paradise in which officials would no longer oppress the people was kept well to the fore. This, of course, is the type of propaganda which might be dangerous in this country, and there seemed a year ago something more than a suspicion that such was the line of policy adopted. Up to present, however, none of the efforts alleged to be in train have had any tangible effect on the country, and accordingly, while such reports as the present should not be ignored, they may be qualified by the assumption that the Bolshevik wish is father to the thought,
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