Enclosure No. 2.
Translation.
(Extract from the Chun Pao Evening Press, Hong Kong)
2nd December, 1929.
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All Kuomintang and Government Departments, all popular
organisations and the Press,
An announcement has appeared in the Press today
that Litvinoff, the Russian Foreign Minister, has declared
that the Authorities of the Three Eastern Provinces have
accepted in toto the conditions set out by Soviet Russia.
Now the dispute over the Chinese Bastern Railway was
purposely provoked in July last by Chiang Kai Shek in order
to divert the attention of the Chinese to foreign affairs
while he was left free to use all his power to deal with his
opponents. At first he used military force to expell the
Russians to show that the breach was irreparable: Now he is
on his knees begging for peace, and inviting the contempt
of the world. He has blown hot and cold and in both moods
he has been wrong. When Russian troops poured into Manchuria and Mongolia and stormed fortified positions within Chinese territory, Chiang never sent a solitary infantryman to oppose them. He looked on with folded arms while the people of the Eastern Provinces were harried and scattered, until
the frontier posts were lost and officers and men sacrificed.
Then he turned round and ordered the Government of the
Eastern Provinces to accept every condition imposed by the Soviets. The officers and men of the Eastern Provinces
have lost their lives uselessly sacrificed to one man's
ambition: but that is not all. He has shamed China and
ruined her sovereignty. He has surrendered to "Red
Imperialism" and he feels no remorse.
Chiang Kai Shek in the civil wars has used the
people cruelly. He is a glutton for cannon- fodder.
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