Show ALL RUSSIANS INTERESTED IN NEWS OF CHINA GHINA DA VIS LEARNS Even Women y Adopt Res Res- Resolution Resolution on Far East Question Q II estion REASON HEASON IS GIVEN Soviets Hold They Have Haye Right to Assist in iii Resolution evolution II EDITORS EDITOR'S NOTE This is the sixth of a series of articles on present-day present conditions In Russia by Jerome DavIs a a. member of the faculty of oC the Yale lale university divinity school who vho has spent the summer in Russia as special correspondent for The Standard Standard Standard-Ex- Ex Examiner and NEA NE Sen Service Ice These articles are appearing dally daily By JEROME JEROIE D DAVIS V IS Member ot oC the Faculty Yale laic r. r lly School Written for The Standard Standard- Examiner and NEA lEA Service MOSCOW Oct 18 Everywhere E one goes in Russia one sees hears and even tastes China for China for most of the tea comes from irons that country To be sure the average a peasant Is rather apathetic about events In the Far East but to the communist it Is Isa isa a subject as absorbing as os baseball or ora ora a presidential election in the states slates carry the latest new newa from rom the Chinese front In every club there is a map of China In the book shops of which there are arc hundreds one always alwa's finds an en entire en en- entire tire section or shelf devoted de to recent books and pamphlets on the Chinese question most ol ot which were published by the Communist party ES hOUSEWIVES CONGRATULATE CO CHINESE ESC Leaving the book shop I visited a a. grocery store Over Oer a big display of vegetables hung hun a a. large brilliantly red colored bunting on which was lettered in white WELCOME WELco TO THE IRE CHINESE REVOLUTION The same evening I attended a a. regular meeting of the housewives of the district What was my surprise to hear these mothers after talking about the dill difficulties 1 of household economics economies pass passa a resolution to sena their greeting erecting to the wife of or the former president of China Sun Yat Sen The message congratulated her on the triumph of or orthe the revolutionary re armies REASON FOR INTEREST Just lust why should there be this craze about China and the Chinese Ever since the Invasion of Russia by the Mongols there has hu been an Asiatic strain In the people and an inevitable interest in Chinese affairs Add to this the fact that Russia borders on the Chinese empire and has therefore an especial economic stake in what happens there and the added fact that China is now v ve the e most promising Ig land hand landIn handin vf amr s In the world for f a revolutionary o corn com communist movement and you jou OU may have havethe havethe havethe the secret of the Chinese mania In order to get the point of view of the government on this question 1 talked with the head of the Far Par East East- Eastern em ern division dl with Karahan the former Russian ambassador to China who secured the treaty treat ol of 1924 with ith the foreign minister and with of the communist All these sources state that Russia wants to help the Chinese people and to make China safe for lor the Chinese THREE CI CLASSES IS IN CHIN sums up the present sit situation sit sit- nation in China this way There are three social class camps In China three organized national centers The first and most is the camp of the northern army with Tso Chang at its head This camp is entirely in the service of the imperialists and thinks of no re reforms reforms re reforms forms forms' but one that of founding a anew anew anew new dynasty by crowning its mar marshal marshal marshal At the present moment this camp is obviously approaching its downfall The second group is that of oC the lib Jib liberal liberal eral erat property owners be be be- believes liens that if China had had great landed estates similar to the Russian type it would have been easy to or organize or- or organize organize a revolutionary peasantry But flut In China land ownership Is much more widely spread According to the Rus Bus Russians such military leaders as Chang Kai Kal Sek Feng and Tan Shen Shi de deserted de- de deserted the communist cause to protect property This block is at present the strongest among the camps which are arc at war Its forces will continue to grow in the Immediate future says ays Continued d on rage Page Two I ALL RUSSIANS WATCH CHINA Continued from Page Fare One but he believes this group Is beginning to show its real hand In reprisals agrarian elements in China and against the workers THIRD GROUP The third group is that tha of the com com- communists communists communistS and their unconscious sympathizers the peasants workers and small property owners Their leaders are petty bourgeoise politicians of the I worst type e who at the moment of I crisis be certain to side with the liberals says In fact most ot of them have already deserted the communist party which Is now Il Illegal ii- ii legal and has been becis driven under under- underground underground ground In spite of this the member member- membership membership membership ship has grown to The chief I strength of this third group lies in the masses ma ses It is just because the corn com communist party has had such success com I with the peasantry that the military leaders begin to fear feor it lt will sweep all before it They therefore drastically oppose it lt now GOVERNMENTS GOVERNMENT'S ATTITUDE What has been heen the place of the Rus Rus- Russian Russian sian government in this revolutionary struggle First of all 1111 it has hils abrogated all 1111 the unjust treaties It has given en up all nil the special property concessions It has hIlS kept only a a. half hale interest in the Eastern Chinese-Eastern railway It claims to be even willing to give this up when China has a n government of the work work- workers workers workers ers and peasants The Russian government categorically categorically categorically cally denies that any of her govern govern- government government government ment officials have hae done any propaganda propaganda propaganda ganda work in China Chinn or have given arms and ammunition to any an of her armies al On the other hand it has not hesitated d to lend Its It moral support to the nationalists Russian officials point out that Russia borders on China Chinn In theory we might be justified in adopt adopt- adopting adoptIng adoptIng ing a Monroe Doctrine for China China- that thai powers which do not border on China have no right to its iu one official said In practice we have not done this When America was winning her Independence she accepted help from France It Is conceivable that Russia Russin has as much right to help the Chinese people as France Fronce did to help the American people DISCLAIMS BORODIN Rj president of the peoples people's commissars commissar explains the matter maUer in inthis Inthis Inthis this way ay We regard rt gard China as s a 0 sovereign so state just as much as us Great Britain and anti we believe that we wt are responsible reap on- on sible for our attitude in China to the Chinese Chin e and not to the British h. h Any other state of affairs would be just as ns wrong as liS if it Shek Kai or the Shanghai authorities to make us responsible for the behavior of our representative say in London We are made responsible for the fact that Borodin a citizen of the Soviet Union was participating in the events in China The intrigues against the British are ore attributed to the activity activity activity ity of Borodin I must say that Boro Boro- Borodin Borodin Borodin din was not our representative in China and has received no authority from the government of the Soviet Union so that our government is not responsible for the actions of Borodin It is known to us that Chang Tso Lin has as military adviser an English English- Englishman man named Setton Set ton I do not believe that British adviser is working with due energy to awaken the sympathies of the Chinese for Russia In spite spits of this I am by no means Inclined to accuse the British and Chamberlain with the fact that Mr Setton Is ad adviser ad- ad adviser adviser to Tso Chang went on to point out that the I greatest proof that Russia is not in interfering In- In Interfering interfering in ln the internal affairs of China is ls that she has no troops there Russia is in a far stronger position for she does not need to have armies in China we are defended by the Chinese people themselves he says ANOTHER SIDE While it Is conceivable that as a government Russia may have hwe kept her official hands clear I of intervention t I IWIC i rt in Chinese politics this s 15 iS certainly not true WIC of the communist internationals Ir In the next article I will show some of the policies and acts which the com corn communist communist internationals has followed in China as admitted by Russians here CopyrightS Copyright ht 1927 1921 NEA Service Inc |