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Enclosure No. 5
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(Extract from the Man Kwok Yat Po, Canton. 15th Feb., 1927.)
Sun Fo's Speech on Revolution
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The past several years have witnessed the dawn of the Chinese revolutionary movement expand into the brightness of day. The spirit of our late President, who for several decades toiled and fought for his cause with such gallantry and fearle seness, has at last moved the masses throughout the whole country. And at the same time our own strenuous work in proclaiming the objects which we wis to achieve has borne fruit in the understanding of the masses. At last the peasants, workmen, merchants, students, women, and soldiers of the whole of China have learnt that what the Chinese race needs above all else is equality and freedom. That is to say that what China most urgently needs at the moment is the abolition of all unequal treaties. assure you that the resumption of the concession in Hanow is only the first step in our programme to secure the abolition of unequal treaties. The British Imperialists have now learnt the error of their way s and have not again dared to treat us with the same diplomatic policy as they used to aaopt to terrorize weak races. It is truly right that gives us might, and we are not in any way afraid of the Imperialists. If we regard how things have fallen out lately we can see that the enlightened, righteous, and noble object of getting the unequal treaties abolished is easily to be achieved in te immediate future. Let us discuss this question first. At present there is still some apprehension among many of our comrades that
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