Dr. Wu, the Foreign Minister of the Nanking Nationalist Government,
has been prompt to send a reply to M. Tchitcherin's disavowal of Soviet agitation in China. Dr. Wu says that the connivance of the Soviet Consulates has been placed beyond doubt by the dis- covery of documents. Documents seized at the Canton Consulate, for example, provided for "disarmament of the gentry classes "—we quote from the Shanghai correspondent of the Times—" in accordance with the programme of the agrarian revolution." On the other hand, the "poorer class of peasants" were to be armed. Dr. Wu goes on to say that the past friendship of Nationalists towards the Soviet was due to - the belief that the Russians-were sincere in their sympathy with the Chinese Nationalist Movement. Subsequent events unfortunately proved that what the Soviet had really tried to do was "to denationalize the Nationalist move- ment." Evidently the Soviet wanted China as a mere appanage of its system.
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