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are, powerful as the groups and banks behind them may be, are almost capped by something greater.
The inevitable effect of what is happening in China, on Burma (taken from China only in the 'eighties), on India, and, percolating through India, on Egypt and Africa, indeed on every territory where black or yellow races are used to provide cheap labour and cheap cannon fodder for so-called civilised whites, is already evident in ominous rumblings.
In the face of all this, when the question is asked-"Will the great Powers give up without a struggle? it is only necessary to
the papers which say
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The British Aircraft Carrier H.M.S. "Hermes" has left Malta for China, fully equipped with aeroplanes and bombs.
What is good enough for an Egyptian is obviously good enough for a Chinaman.
With long experience of bombing defenceless Egyptians and Arabs, English airmen should have no difficulty in scaring the 700 little girls and boys back to work at the British Yangtszepoo Cotton Mill.
British Labour can help us by raising its voice in protest against the terrible inhuman atrocities which have been and are carried out for the good of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation and its allied groups.
But the use of force, of machine-guns, bombs, armoured cars and tanks is not a sudden idea to meet an emergency, but a long and carefully prepared plan worked out by the business men in China, the representatives of the banks and business houses in collusion and with the active support of the Government in London, to smash, once for all, the Trade Unions in China,
As long ago as March, 1925, the Secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Council, the oligarchy of business men who control Shanghai, wrote the following letter to the War Office in London :--- Mr. E. S. B. Rowe, Secretary of the Shanghai Municipal
Council
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Sir HERBERT J. CREEDY, Permanent Under-Secretary of
State for War, War Office, London.
DEAR SIR,
At the instance of the Council of the International Settlement in
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Shanghai I have the honour to request you to deliver to us on terms of long credit the following articles :-
200 Rifles, Webbs, S.M.L.E., III*. 120 Cases of Webbs Ammunition 08.
This request is made in emergency, as the Shanghai Volunteer Guard is to be increased and requires larger quantities of arms and ammunition than hitherto.
I beg leave to express the confident hope that His Majesty's War Office will find it possible to comply with the request of the Council, and also to thank you for your good offices in the matter.
I am, &c.,
(Signed) E. S. B. Rowe, It is inconceivable that these steps and preparations, which have been going on for a long time, were unknown to MacDonald.
We Chinese cannot understand why the British workers still keep MacDonald as their leader. To us he seems to be leading you backwards and backwards, but that is your Pidgin--not ours.
The supply of arms to the Shanghai Merchant Volunteers, a Fascist body, was admitted by the Secretary of State for War in the House of Commons on July 14, when he said that it was true that during the past six months applications had been received for the supply of arms to the Shanghai Volunteer Force, and that these applications had been complied with.
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So the front line policy of the British, who are the predominant imperialists and who set the pace, is to smash the workers separately in each town; to shoot to kill" an unarmed crowd after ten seconds' warning, as Inspector Everson ordered before the Laoza police-station in Shanghai on May 30.
But whilst this policy may succeed in the British Crown Colony, Hongkong (where every unemployed adult is to be deported and where the British Governor Sir Reginald Stubbs has arranged for the flogging of the strikers), it will not succeed in China proper.
The butchery at Shanghai has already been condemned, even by officials.
When the news of the shootings which took place at Shanghai on May 30 and subsequent days reached Peking, the heads of the Diplomatic Missions of the powers interested appointed a Mixed Commission to proceed to Shanghai, there to carry out an inquiry in conjunction with a Chinese Commission, appointed by the Peking Government, and to report to the Diplomatic Body. The
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