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Paramount in interest on the Chinese scene, last week, loomed the little Soviet steamer Pamiat Lenina (Memory of Lenin), bound from Vladivostok (Siberia) with a cargo of tea for Shanghai and Hankow. At Shanghai, a Russian woman and three Russian couriers boarded the steamer. The captain gave the woman his own cabin, saluted her as Citizeness Borodin, wife of the great Michael Markovitch Borodin, famed Soviet Russian adviser and propagandist attached to the Chinese Nationalist Government (TIME, Dec. 13) which has conquered half China...
There was danger. The "Red" Nationalist ship must run a doubtful gauntlet of anti-Nationalist Chinese and "White Russian" troops at Pukow before she could reach the upper Yangtze and the Nationalist Capital* Hankow. As Pukow was reached and the usual river patrol boat full of Chinese soldiers put off from the shore, Mme. Borodin and her three couriers steeled themselves to weasel out of many a question...
...From Hankow, Michael Markovitch Borodin communicated frantically with Moscow and Soviet Russian representatives in Peking and Shanghai. Soon "demands" were made by the Soviet Government upon the great Northern War Lord Chang Tsolin, theoretically the feudal superior of the Shantung Chang. The two Changs were informed that they must release Mme. Borodin, her couriers, her baggage, and the S. S. Pamiat Lenina. But Mme. Borodin was not released. To rescue her, Russia must send much gold, or many men, offer some great concession, or concoct some really potent threat. "Mrs. Grosberg," Chinese thought, is likely to prove the most valuable...
This was that the Cabinet would not pursue a Chinaphobe policy in an effort to wrest back the British concession at Hankow from the Chinese Nationalists who recently seized it by mob force (TIME, Jan. 17). Sir Austen made public, last week, the secret text of the present Chino-British agreement concerning Hankow (TIME, Jan. 24 et seq.); and this was found to be a quiet peaceable undertaking to administer Hankow in future by a Chino-British Council on which Chinese would slightly predominate...
...Hankow, recently evacuated by the British, who abandoned to the Nationalists a $60,000,000 capital investment (TIME, Jan. 17) negotiations continued all week between British representative Owen O'Malley, and the Nationalist Foreign Minister Eugene Chen. An agreement was finally signed between them relating to the British holdings abandoned at Hankow, but the text of this agreement was kept secret...