Enclosure No. 4.
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Translation.
(Extract from the Kwok Man San Man, Canton, 17th Feb., 1927)
Telegram by the Officers and Units of theth Army
protesting against the Arrest of Workmen by British soldiers
at Shanghai.
The Commanders and units of the whole 4th Revolutionary
Army, finding that the British Imperialists have again
stabbed and arrested workmen in the British Concession at
Shanghai, have sent out a circular by post and by wire
which reads as follows:-
"Very urgent. To the Press of the whole country for
transmission to our fellow-countrymen of all classes. Are
we not human beings? Why have our fellow-countrymen been repeatedly massacred by the British Imperialists as if they were fowls or dogs? It is the most terrible calamity in the world, and a sign of the imminent destruction of our country and our race. How can we tolerate it as long as we have any life left to us? Let us try and recall the recent remarkable massacres, such as the tragic incidents of May the 30th in
Shakee and that in Wanshien, the account of which is most painful to hear. And again let us tell you what has taken place just lately. The British in Hankow, Kiukiang and Wuyeh have again massacred us in another way, stabbing us this time directly with their bayonets. Numbers of our fellow-countrymen were drowned. Of late, they have become even more fierce and violent. They have arrested our sea- men members in Changsha who were marching in a procession to support our action at Hankow, they have made a wholesale arrest of our Kuomintang members in Tientsin, and they have persuaded the Liukdenese militarists to have them extradited
and