CO129-498-5 Canton boycott- report on visit to Canton of representatives of the Hong Kong Chinese merchants... 6-1-1926 - 6-1-1926 — Page 18

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Translation.

(Extract from the Kwong Chow Kwok man at ro, Canton,)

(31st. December, 1925.)

Warning to the rebels - tre 8 rebele who came from long

Kong yesterday.

by (Chun) Fu muk.

The only rebels of the Chinese Republic are the

cold-blooded foreign slaves and the compradore, who have

acted in the same way as jackals do for a tiger. The se

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 anu led them to attack our

father-land. 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 uncivilized barbarians or

tame dogs which will even lick ulcers and piles to please

their masters.

The terrible masaore at Shanghai was Aramediately

followed by the dreadful slaughter in ha-ki, and many

of our beloved brother, bled and laid dead in the streets.

Anybody who has the least humanity, shoul. have been very

angry and seeked to revenge. The poor and helpless work-

men have even, despite the danger of hunger and cold, set

up a strike and returned to their count y with a resolution

to fright a dual with the Imperialists. un 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

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