They persuaded the Chinese Chamber of Commerce to petition the Irkutsk Soviet to send a detachment of Reds to Uliassutai for the protection of the Chinese against the White detachments.
Freimann brought with him communistic pamphlets in Mongolian and instructions to begin the reconstruction of the telegraph line to Irkutsk.

Bourdukoff also received some messages from the Bolsheviki.
This quartette developed their policy very successfully and soon saw Wang Tsao-tsun fall in with their schemes.

Once more the days of expecting a pogrom in Uliassutai returned to us.

The Russian officers anticipated attempts to arrest them.

The representative of one of the American firms went with me to the Commissioner for a parley.