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loan by the Fivefold Consortium should be limited to
political purposes in order to develop her political influ-
ence in China. In the 12th year of the Republic, (1923)
President Sun Yat-sen claimed the return of the Customs
surplus of Canton, but the British ambassador referred the matter to the Diplomatic Corps at Peking and the gun-boats of 6 Powers were sent into the Macao Passage at Canton to
threaten the Cantonese Government. In the 13th year of the Republic (1924) the British Imperialists supplied the
Merchants' Corps in secret with arms and ammunition so as to help them in their rebellion. This was discovered by the Government; but the British Imperialists actually sent an
ultimatum to the Canton Government, notifying them that the
British gun-boats would fire at Canton, if the Government
disarmed the merchants' corps. Now unreasonable and barbar-
ous they have been! In the 15th year of the Republic (1926) the workmen of a Japanese yarn factory at Shanghai went on strike in opposition to the oppression of Japanese
Imperialism, but on May the 30th the British Imperialists
openly helped the Japanese Imperialists and massacred the
Chinese masses in procession in the public roads there with
machine-guns.
In this 8 were killed and numbers were wound-
ed. On the 23rd June the Cantonese held a demonstration
protesting against the Shanghai tragedy of the May 30th and passed Shaki. The British and French Imperialistsswept the
procession with machine-guns, killing 50 or 60 persons and
wounding numbers of others. On the 5th September, on account
of the detention of a British gun-boat, the British and
French Imperialists bombarded Wanhsien, killing more than
5,000 citizens and destroying a great part of the city. On
the 4th September the British gun-boats showed their guns
and arms at Canton and Swatow, and mooring alongside the
wharves there, landed a number of troops, giving us a
deliverate