Enclosure No. 3
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Translation.
(Extract from Wah Tsz Yat Po, Hong Kong, 9th May 1927)
Letter from Tseung Chung Ching (Chiang Kai-shek) to
all masses in China.
Our Chinese Kuomintang has for its objects, under the
"Three Aspects of Democracy", the benefitting of the Chinese
people, the emancipation of the Chinese, and equality for all
the races in the world. Our national revolutionary work is
forcibly to overthrow militarism and imperialism, and to
remove all gloomy and violent influences in China, so as to
acquire independence, freedom and equality for her. It is
a part of the world revolutionary work.
For many years our Chinese race has continually been
subjected to oppression, and while our race is under the
yoke of the unequal treaties, how can China be a country
enjoying independence, freedom and equality?
The violent and ignorant militarists have ruled China
with unchecked brutality. At first they fought with one
another for their own personal gains once every few years, later every year and then several times a year. Their
continuous war has reduced our country to chaos and caused
our people great misery. How can our Chinese race have any
hope of existence if it is left to the control of such
useless, ignorant and inhuman persons?
President Sun of our Kuomintang, who founded the
Chinese Republic, in order to save China from destruction
and to satisfy the Chinese with the necessities of existence
enunciated three grand principles
Nationalism, Democracy
and Socialism, and made the plans for our National
Revolution. Unfortunately he died after 40 years' hard work
in the interests of the Chinese people. He had therefore
to