The Manchester Guardian, renamed The Guardian in 1959, was a daily newspaper based in Manchester and founded in 1821. Arthur Ransome was made the Russian correspondent of the Manchester Guardian in 1919 after the editor C. P. Scott read Six Weeks in Russia in 1919 and liked it. He was based in the Baltic states previously part of Russia; first in Reval, Estonia (Reval was renamed Tallinn) and then Riga, Latvia in 1923. He wrote intermittent lengthly articles rather than the frequent telegrams he had sent during the war, writing them outside Russia to avoid the Soviet censor. In 1924 he returned to England with Evgenia, and he wrote on Russia for the paper until 1928, although they stopped paying a retaining fee after March 1924. The paper sent him to China in 1926-27 (LAR pp 244,259, 277 2