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sincerity in the Three Democratic Principles, but also the fol- lowers of the Three Democratic Frinciples should be sincere towards the Communists. I myself am the believer of the Three Democratic Principles, but I dare say that I am also one of the most sincere Communists. Therefore I hope you all will treat one another with sincerity. Now the students of the third term are about to graduate, and at their request I write this preface for their register in the hope that they will never forget unity and sincerity that have been taught in this College.
CHEUNG CHUNG CHING.
Written in Chiu On on the 15th December, 1925.
No. 4.
SIR,
ENCLOSURE 4 IN NO. 4.
Government House, Hongkong, 6th January, 1926.
I have the honour to forward for your information certain extracts from Chinese newspapers which illustrate the increas- ingly abusive tone of the Canton Press with each steps nearer to a settlement of the present troubles with the Canton Govern-
ment.
2. The Hongkong Government has for some time insisted that rancour and recrimination should be kept out of the Press: and it is surprising to find in the Kwong Chau Man Kwok Yat Po (a paper credited with being the official organ of the Kwok Man Tong in Canton) an article of a nature so violent as that to which reference is made, at a moment when the Canton Government was professing its anxiety for a settlement through the medium of that very delegation whose members the newspaper seeks to condemn, to death for their efforts.
3. I have therefore to request you to be good enough to enter with the Canton Government a protest against the licence per- mitted to their Press: a licence which has the effect of casting a doubt on their sincerity and on the genuine nature of their pro- fessions for an early settlement.
I have, &c.,
C. CLEMENTI,
Governor, &c.
His Britannic Majesty's Consul-General Canton.
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TRANSLATION.
(Extract from the Kwong Chow Kwok Man Yat Po, Canton, 31st December, 1925.)
Warning to the rebels the eight rebels who came from Hongkong yesterday.
(By (Chan) Fu Muk.)
The only rebels of the Chinese Republic are the cold-blooded foreign slaves and the compradores, who have acted in the same way as jackals do for a tiger. These rebels are all the time obstacles in the way of revolution. They are bad eggs who have caused the loss of the prestige of our country. They have helped the Imperialists to oppress our fellow countrymen and led them to attack our fatherland. They do not know that they are Chinese, but as the Imperialists do not like to treat them as their subjects, they can only become uncivilised barbarians or tame dogs which will even lick ulcers and piles to please their masters. The terrible massacre at Shanghai was immediately followed by the dreadful slaughter at Sha-ki, and many of our beloved brothers bled and laid dead in the streets. Anybody who has the least humanity, should have been very angry and seeked to revenge. The poor and helpless workinen have even, despite the danger of hunger and cold, set up a strike and returned to their country with a resolution to fight a duel with the Imperialists. On the contrary, the so-called aristocrats in Hongkong and the so-called leading Chinese merchants treated the death of our beloved fellow countrymen as merely losing their enemies. They laughed at them at a distance, and made continuous slanders against our patriotic workmen; and they have even asked the English to send troops to oppress our Government. This shows that they have confessed to be rebels, and indeed they are more than deserving punishment for their crime. They long eagerly day and night for a settlement merely because the continuation The of the strike has caused much injury to their business. workmen have been in need of food, but they have not aided them with any contributions. The Imperialists have constantly schemed to oppress us, but we have never heard that they ever joined with the workmen to offer any resistance. On the con- trary, they are proposing peace negotiation every day. Let me ask them if they are worthy of speaking about peace negotiation. If you confess that you are obedient subjects and tame dogs of the English, you should be the objects of our attack. If you still recognise that you are Chinese, what face have you in coming to negotiate peace' on behalf of the murderers who have killed our brothers? You are thinking that you are very proud of being a third party that has come for a peace negotiation, but in reality you are uncivilised illegitimates.
Yesterday there came the rebels from Hongkong, who had helped the English in their murder of our fellow countrymen Announcement has already been made by the people of our They now country that these eight rebels should be killed. actually call themselves responsible representatives for the
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