The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-10-17

1nternat1OnaI NeWS SerFce Stth NOf- respondent.
 Peking, Oct. 1T.-Recognitfo iN return for Mongolia is the present | bargain which Russia is prepared to offer China.
 Please get out of Mongolia at oncel" demands China. Your ad- ministration has already brought ruin to thousands of our citizens the Soviet mission We will with draw our troops and hand back the country to you on1y-conditions there are at present unsafe. and we have remain and to preserve order" It has been hinted that recognition fby China of Russia might hasten the process.
 The Chinese Chambers of Com
 nerce in the leading cities of Mon goIia deny that any Chinese desire the Russians to remain. In formal they urge that the Bolshevists be compelled to leave and, if necessary, that armed force be used. The sit
 lation is painted as gloomy, and ported driven out, merchandise to the extent of thousands of camel loads confiscated and enormus taxes col lected. Dhis money which is said to Chita. where 1t is used for the sup port of the Far Eastern Republic the "Stberian branch" of the Soviet Government.
 The statements of both Soviet Rus sia and the Chinese incline to exag geration- China, has lost trade and does actaully want the Russian Red troops to go out Nevertheless the Reds have made a better showing than the Whites" under Mad" Ba- ron Ungern. Travellers from Urga re- port that trade is thriving and that many Chinese merchants are making good profits The Mongo1tans them selves are not altogether discontent, &1,<,r @H, oI,a 4N,z rs-A trol All of the officials in high posts are Mongolians. with Russians for ad- visers. A certain amount of inde- pendence is allowed.
 In spite of Joffe's speeches with the Soviet mission in China, Russo-Chi- nese friendship is not improving. The speeches are not to the liking of the intended for consumption in Moscow, not here. Moreover, the Chinese have not forgiven the indignities suffered at the hands of the former Tsar's sol diers and have taken many reprisals upon the defenseless Russians living within Chinese jurisdiction, especially in Harbin. There the Chinese police had little mercy for Russians and have arrested them on the slightest pretext, sometimes beating them se- verely, The Bolshevist troops in Urga are mindful of this treatment and show 1t in their conduct.
 Philemon and Baucis lived over again In China when the good offices of a benevolent aid society prevented a dual suicide and made possible a happy. peaceful life for them to the end of their days.
 Wong Flu, aged seventy, was a maker of reed baskets, For years he had toiIed until his growing age made it necessary for him to stop work. As is proper in honorable Chinese fam flies. he was then supported by his son. His wife, aged sixty-nine, shared with him his contentment and they had lived for nearly half a century together the neighborhood's model for conJugal bliss.
 Misfortune came in the death of the son. Their other son had gone years ago to another province and nothing had been heard from him. There was no money left with which to pay for food and their lodging.
 Outside the city there is a home for destitute old ladies. Its director in vtted the wife of Wong Flu to take asylum there. The old man urged not leave him.
 Wong Flu did not want his wife to suffer their poverty. He determined to kill himself. He borrowed a rope made a moose and fastened the other end to an apple tree in their court yard His wife discovered him before 1t was too late and, weeping, begged permission to accompany him in death
 linen the gracious gods arrived, hhis time disguised as three American ladies. By magic a considerable sum was raised, more than Wong Flu had ever seen in his life, and it made it possible for him to live with his wife and still have enough left for food They are noNw living happily