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not a single shot was fired by the British: yet reports were telegraphed all over the country that British Marines in Nanking had fired upon and killed defenceless Chinese work- men. Again, shortly after the Shanghai riots, Mr. Mackenzie, a British subject, was brutally murdered in his motor-car on one of the outer roads of Shanghai. There was the circum- stantial evidence of the lady who was with him and drove the car some distance, with both arms wounded, until help was obtained. And the facts of the assassination were established beyond any doubt. Nevertheless, the vernacular Press was insistent that the victim died of heart failure from driving his car at high speed in the dark, and that to strengthen the evidence against the strikers the British Consul-General ordered the foreign police to drill holes resembling bullet wounds in the dead man's body!
The xenophobia of June last speedily contracted into anglophobia; but it is foolish to attempt to invert the issues of grave events by these means. Outrage and murder are not protean pastimes with the British in China, or anywhere else.
APPENDIX A.
Extract from an article by Zinoviev in the Pravda, published in April, 1925,
After outlining a list of imaginary "crimes" by the Powers, including the "seizure" of Hongkong by the British, the writer goes on to say that after all these "preparatory doings" there was little left for Soviet leaders to do.
"We had only," he says, "to advise a few individual Chinese to commit suicide as a protest against imperialistic violence, to cut off their own fingers and with their blood to write short but strong maledictions, to advise hundreds of thousands of workers to demonstrate and strike and to convince reactionary generals and Chang Tso-lin among them--to contribute big sums of money to support the anti-imperialistic movement.'
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SIR,
APPENDIX B.
H. B. M. Consulate-General, Canton.
22nd June, 1925.
I learn from sources which I have every reason to believe to be trustworthy that, in the course of a patriotic demonstration arranged for to-morrow, the student element intend to make martyrs of themselves by attacking the bridges leading on to Shameen. I am informed that they
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