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Enclosure No.1.
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Propaganda on the subject of the Chinese
Eastern Railway.
1.
The seizure of the Chinese Eastern Railway by
Chang Hsueh Liang should be regarded as an attack by the
Militarists on the Propertyless Classes in the interest
of Imperialism.
2.
It must also be regarded as an attack by
Imperialism on Soviet Russia because Russia is opposed
to sweated labour and oppression of weak races in which
Imperialists delight. The British are the most inveterate
enemies of Soviet Russia. The policy of Imperialism is
to buy over the smaller states on the borders of Russia
Poland, Roumania ad now Manchuria. The NankingGovernment
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and Chang Hsueh Liang are good dogs of the Imperialists:
witness the search of the Peking Embassy and the Harbin
Consulate.
3.
The Imperialists want the Chinese Eastern
Railway to facilitate an armed invasion of Russia. In
particular Japan wants the railway for herself and
Manchuria with it. Russia is quite willing to give up
the Chinese Eastern Railway along with extraterritoriality,
concessions and Boxer Indemnity, but of course this
cannot be done without some guarantee that it will not
fall into Japanese hands.
4.
The Japanese scheme is to encourage China and
Russia to go to war and then to step in and occupy the
Chinese Eastern Railway and use it against Russia in
conjunction with Great Britain which will act similarly
in Poland and Roumania. We communists should prevent
this.
5.
War is working up between Japan and America.
When this happens it will take place in China and the
Chinese