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THE FIRST PETRELS
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its local military and civil authorities prepared with their own hands the immense national disaster in Manchuria and that the punition which came some years later in the guise of the Bolshevik Revolution was deservedly earned by the Government circles—a punishment that fell, however, much more heavily on the nation as a whole, innocent as it was of the crimes of the Government.