American Who Tried Life in a Communist Colony One of the survivors, or rather one of those who have come out, of the American-Russian Siberian Colony, has arrived in Shanghai after spending about six months in traversing the Soviet country from Petrograd to Harbin. The group of which he was a member had its inception among the Radicals, Communists, Sovietis and I. W. W. of America, whose avowed purpose was to found a colony of an idealistic nature in Russia where the principles of the Soviet theory of government could be experimented with and a Utopian settlement established.
Mr. A. E. Gunner in converser tion with a representative of the "North-China Daily News," gave the impression of being thoroughly disgusted with the lack of any initiative on the part of the populace in the interior of Russia, and said that the venture was a hopeless failure. Like many others on the expedition, Mr. Gunner ventured out not because he is inclined toward this form of control, but because of his profession as an engineer, which he thought might be of use to him and the country. In commenting on the personnel of the party, Mr. Gunner said that among members there were represented more than 14 nationalities, who had flocked to ithe New World to spread their Propaganda, but had failed by reason of the vigilance of the Federal officials and the poor reception accorded them by the American people. About 5 per cent. could be characterized as having some breeding, the most being of a nature that could not even agree with another of the same trend of mind, in their chosen field of the people supreme.
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