The New York herald., 1921-07-10

Pek1n Government, has now found 1t con-
venient to bolt and Russians resident in the
Middle Kingdom are hastily buying Mexi-
can, Portuguese and Nicaraguan passports,
as otherwise they would come under
Chinese jurisdiction.
Northern Manchuria and Mongolia
Likely to Fall to Japanese
few words about Far Eastern Siberia
may not be out of place here. When Kol-
chak fed from Omsk in the winter of 1919
the Reds followed him as far as Lake Bal
kal, but the Japanese prevented them from
coming further. They then formed the
Far Eastern Soviet Republic, a sort of
buffer State, moderately Bolshevik, with it's
capital at Chita and Commissar Tobelson
or Krasnoshehekov as it's President. AS
matter OF fact the form of government is
not yet settled for there is a Constituent
Assembly sitting now at Chita, but prac-
tically it is Soviet Republic. Nominally
il includes the Trans-Baikal, Primorsk and
Sakhalien, but the Japs have grabbed the
northern half of Sakhalien and dominate
Kamchatka and the very rich southern
part of the Primorsk district with the town
of Vladivostok. AS it is probable that all
northern Manchuria and all Mongolia will
also fall under Japanese influence, the
Muscovite hold on the Pacific may be re-
garded as lost
The two great dangers of the world are
G) Bolshevism and (2) the rising tide of
color" and on the eastern shores of ST.
IBERIA these two dread forces have already
come into conflict, striking at the weakest
link in the white chain, for none of the
white peoples have any sympathy with
Bolshevism. America is the only nation
likely to later on, but it is difficult to
see what she can do more. 1t would be
very hard for her to send an army to drive
the Japs out of Siberia, because she would
first have to annihilate japan itself, and
even If she did land an army in Siberia
she would derive little assistance from the
Russians. The White Russians are mostly
in the pay of Japan and the Red Russians
are "nobody's darling"
In 1919 America did send a military
force to Vladivostok under Gen. Graves,
but that leader found himself more op-
posed to the Japanese and the White Rus
SLAMS than he did to the Bolsheviks, and
the same thing would happen again il an
other force were sent
1t is unlikely that the Mikado's Govern
ment will ever put itself nagrantly in the
wrong by launching great attack on ST.
IBERIA and proclaiming it's annexation. 1t
will more likely keep considerable num-
ber of high class Russians in its pay as
igureheads. and encourage those Russians
who are not high class to cut one another's
throats for the sake of Karl Marx.
Gives Story in Detail
OF Fighting in VIadivostok
The gist of the foregoing information
comes from Chita. and after having trans
lated ii from the Russian and expanded it
with my own comments | received a full
account, also from the Far East, of the
coup at vladivostok. l translate It as
follows.
'VLADrvosToK, May 30.
From the morning OF May 26 to the
evening of May 81 there was fighting in the
streets of Vladvostok between the police
of the Far Eastern Republic and the bands
of Semenoff, assisted by the Japanese. At
A. M. on May 26 a group of armed bandits
attacked a convoy of republican police
conveying arrested conspirators and the
Japanese disarmed the convoy The in
surgents had meanwhile attacked and taken
all the Government establishments. the
naval staff, the administrative section of
the National Assembly. &c. At noon on
the 26th Kappellites landed and at the
same time the Japanese began disarming
AL the republican police. A group of Kap-
pellites forced their way into the chancel-
lery of the National Assembly. killed the
officer in command of the National Guard
and arrested the President of the National