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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...
...Pamiat Lenina swung away from the bund at Shanghai, slowly churned her steadygoing way up the great river Yangtze. Mme. Borodin left her cabin and stood on the bridge with the Captain...
...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 hostage of the whole Chinese civil...
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